Comments on: Around the Web Digest: Week of July 13 /2014/07/20/around-the-web-digest-week-of-july-13/ Notes and Queries in Anthropology Fri, 08 Dec 2017 18:00:10 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.1 By: rowennbk /2014/07/20/around-the-web-digest-week-of-july-13/comment-page-1/#comment-820404 Tue, 22 Jul 2014 16:29:08 +0000 /?p=11519#comment-820404 This is really helpful! Thank you!

]]> By: Dick Powis /2014/07/20/around-the-web-digest-week-of-july-13/comment-page-1/#comment-820382 Mon, 21 Jul 2014 12:37:09 +0000 /?p=11519#comment-820382 Thanks John. I’ll try to be more mindful of this in the future.

]]> By: John McCreery /2014/07/20/around-the-web-digest-week-of-july-13/comment-page-1/#comment-820358 Mon, 21 Jul 2014 04:43:00 +0000 /?p=11519#comment-820358 Just a thought. Need to be careful about how much a summary does, or doesn’t include. In the case of the article about Tanya Lurhman’s work on schizophrenic voices, the full lead paragraph reads,

“Stanford anthropologist Tanya Luhrmann found that voice-hearing experiences of people with serious psychotic disorders are shaped by local culture – in the United States, the voices are harsh and threatening; in Africa and India, they are more benign and playful.”

Reducing this to,

“Tanya Luhrmann finds that hallucinatory voices are shaped by cultural context”

suggests that this is yet another, “Culture affects, blah, blah, blah, no duh” sort of article. The news is in the proposition that in the US the voices are threatening, while in Africa or India they are more likely to be playful.

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