Rebecca Seligman
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 576869 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Rebecca Seligman |
| NOMBRES | Rebecca |
| APELLIDO | Seligman |
| FIRMA | SELIGMAN R |
| AFILIACIONES | Northwestern University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9402-0322 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 22 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 341 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 22 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2002 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 8 |
Biological Systems and Embodiment of the Social World
The Cambridge Handbook of Psychological Anthropology
Bringing together contributions from a global team of renowned scholars, this Handbook provides a comprehensive guide to the dynamic field of psychological anthropology. It is divided into five parts and includes a critical updating of the theoretical foundations for psychological anthropology, covering cognitive, psychodynamic, linguistic, and phenomenological views. It provides the first-ever lifespan perspective on human development in culture…
Somatic Symptoms Are Associated With Elevated Blood Pressure and Epstein–Barr Virus Antibodies Among Shuar of the Ecuadorian Amazon
INTRODUCTION: This study tests the hypothesis that self-reported somatic symptoms are associated with biomarkers of stress, including elevated blood pressure and suppressed immune function, among Shuar adults living in the Ecuadorian Amazon. METHODS: Research was conducted in three Shuar communities in the Upano Valley of the Ecuadorian Amazon and included the collection of biomarkers and a structured morbidity interview. Participants self-report…
Mothering and Mental Health Care
Metaphor and the politics and poetics of youth distress in an evidence-based psychotherapy
This article explores the relationship between metaphors and emotion in the context of adolescent distress and psychotherapeutic treatment. Drawing on data from an ethnographic study of Mexican American adolescents receiving outpatient treatment for a variety of emotional and behavioral problems, the article examines what I call 'prescribed' metaphors deployed in mainstream, manualized child and adolescent Cognitive Behavioral Therapies commonly …
Dealing with the unknown. Functional neurological disorder (FND) and the conversion of cultural meaning
Cognition Beyond the Human
We present a new account of the cognitive commitments at stake in animist epistemologies. We use field-based cognitive experiments to contribute to anthropological theories of the new animism, focusing on concepts of nonhuman agency afforded on one animist framework, that of the Ngöbe of Panama. Results from multiple studies using converging methods indicate that Ngöbe individuals have access to an ecocentric conceptual framework within which age…
Mind, Body, Brain, and the Conditions of Meaning
This article explores the relationship between meaning and the body, and the role of mind and brain in mediating this relationship. Drawing on research on "grounded cognition" in cognitive neuropsychology, I consider the mechanisms through which meanings become embodied. I illustrate my argument using examples of the ways in which meaning conditions experiences of illness and health. Focusing especially on the example of religious healing through…
Self-care and Subjectivity among Mexican Diabetes Patients in the United States
Type 2 diabetes is considered a public health crisis, particularly among people of Mexican descent in the United States. Clinical approaches to diabetes management increasingly emphasize self-care, which places responsibility for illness on individuals and mandates self-regulation. Using narrative and free-list data from a two-phase study of low-income first- and second-generation Mexican immigrants living with diabetes, we present evidence that …
Conclusion
The title of the introduction to this book, "Stepping into This Supernatural World," was borrowed from a quotation by one of the mediums with whom I spent a good deal of time, as she talked about the factors that lead to mediumship. As the title of the opening chapter, the phrase was meant to refer not only to how people come to participate in spirit possession, but also to serve as a metaphor for my own entry, and that of the reader, into the ve…
Sometimes Affliction Is the Door
To become a filho de santo, or possession medium within Candomblé, individuals must undergo an intensive initiation process typically lasting from 21 days to 3 months. This alone makes taking on the role of medium a major commitment. But mediumship also involves a great deal of ongoing responsibility, endless ritual duties and considerable expense, regular entry into an altered state of consciousness, submission of one's body to powerful spirits …
Introduction
On a blistering hot day early in my year of fieldwork in Salvador, Brazil, I set out to have a ritual divination performed on my behalf. I had come to Brazil to study spirit possession mediumship in the African-derived religion Candomblé, and motivated by curiosity and the desire to make connections within this spiritual community, I had made arrangements to have a spiritual leader1 perform a divination for me that would reveal to which of the Ca…
Looking Inside
At 11 pm, the festa for the goddess Oxum at Pai João's terreiro was just getting under way. Fireworks had been set off in the concrete yard outside, and people who had been milling around began to wander inside. The shutters of the terriero were flung wide and some onlookers hung their upper bodies through the windows, into the barracão, or central room. The room was bright white with a thatched ceiling, and for the festa it had been decorated wi…
Possessing spirits and healing selves embodiment and transformation in an Afro-Brazilian religion
Spirit possession involves the displacement of a human's conscious self by that of a powerful other - a spirit, god, or demon - who temporarily occupies the human's body. To many, spirit possession is quintessentially exotic, a novelty, an example of the ways in which "others" are fundamentally different. In this book, Seligman shows that, far from being exotic and "other," spirit possession mediumship represents a privileged site for understandi…
Speaking through Diabetes
The disproportionate prevalence of Type II diabetes mellitus among the poor suggests that, in addition to lifestyle factors, social suffering may be embodied in diabetes. In this article, we examine the role of social distress in narratives collected from 26 Mexican Americans seeking diabetes care at a public hospital in Chicago. By linking social suffering with diabetes causality, we argue that our participants use diabetes much like an "idiom o…
The Unmaking and Making of Self
Discontinuities in the experience of self are distressing especially when they are unexpected, unsanctioned, and resist attribution. Such discontinuities are often a product of psychosocial and physical suffering. In this article I present a model of self that incorporates bodily experience as a fundamental building block and key source of discontinuity for a sense of self. Analysis of data from adherents of an African-derived spirit possession r…
Religion and the Politics of Ethnic Identity by Stephen Selka
Mental Health among Taiwanese Americans
Dissociative Experience and Cultural Neuroscience
Distress, Dissociation, and Embodied Experience
This article explores the biocultural bases of spirit possession mediumship in the Afro-Brazilian religion, Candomblé. After a brief review of the literature, the article moves beyond the biomedical and social-structural explanations that have dominated the theoretical landscape, by attempting to construct an etiology of mediumship that is traced through the interface of individual characteristics with the cultural belief system that forms their …
From Affliction to Affirmation
Through the presentation and analysis of a prototypical mediumship narrative, this article shows how individuals initiated into the Candomblé religion of north-eastern Brazil come to alter their own self-narratives by learning and internalizing the cultural model for an established social/religious role: that of the medium. As individuals come to identify with this 'role model,' they are able to reinterpret their own life histories in terms of th…
A quantitative morphometric comparative analysis of the primate temporal lobe
The Cambridge Handbook of Psychological Anthropology
Bringing together contributions from a global team of renowned scholars, this Handbook provides a comprehensive guide to the dynamic field of psychological anthropology. It is divided into five parts and includes a critical updating of the theoretical foundations for psychological anthropology, covering cognitive, psychodynamic, linguistic, and phenomenological views. It provides the first-ever lifespan perspective on human development in culture…
Speaking through Diabetes
The disproportionate prevalence of Type II diabetes mellitus among the poor suggests that, in addition to lifestyle factors, social suffering may be embodied in diabetes. In this article, we examine the role of social distress in narratives collected from 26 Mexican Americans seeking diabetes care at a public hospital in Chicago. By linking social suffering with diabetes causality, we argue that our participants use diabetes much like an "idiom o…
The Unmaking and Making of Self
Discontinuities in the experience of self are distressing especially when they are unexpected, unsanctioned, and resist attribution. Such discontinuities are often a product of psychosocial and physical suffering. In this article I present a model of self that incorporates bodily experience as a fundamental building block and key source of discontinuity for a sense of self. Analysis of data from adherents of an African-derived spirit possession r…
A quantitative morphometric comparative analysis of the primate temporal lobe
Self-care and Subjectivity among Mexican Diabetes Patients in the United States
Type 2 diabetes is considered a public health crisis, particularly among people of Mexican descent in the United States. Clinical approaches to diabetes management increasingly emphasize self-care, which places responsibility for illness on individuals and mandates self-regulation. Using narrative and free-list data from a two-phase study of low-income first- and second-generation Mexican immigrants living with diabetes, we present evidence that …
From Affliction to Affirmation
Through the presentation and analysis of a prototypical mediumship narrative, this article shows how individuals initiated into the Candomblé religion of north-eastern Brazil come to alter their own self-narratives by learning and internalizing the cultural model for an established social/religious role: that of the medium. As individuals come to identify with this 'role model,' they are able to reinterpret their own life histories in terms of th…
Distress, Dissociation, and Embodied Experience
This article explores the biocultural bases of spirit possession mediumship in the Afro-Brazilian religion, Candomblé. After a brief review of the literature, the article moves beyond the biomedical and social-structural explanations that have dominated the theoretical landscape, by attempting to construct an etiology of mediumship that is traced through the interface of individual characteristics with the cultural belief system that forms their …
Mind, Body, Brain, and the Conditions of Meaning
This article explores the relationship between meaning and the body, and the role of mind and brain in mediating this relationship. Drawing on research on "grounded cognition" in cognitive neuropsychology, I consider the mechanisms through which meanings become embodied. I illustrate my argument using examples of the ways in which meaning conditions experiences of illness and health. Focusing especially on the example of religious healing through…
Cognition Beyond the Human
We present a new account of the cognitive commitments at stake in animist epistemologies. We use field-based cognitive experiments to contribute to anthropological theories of the new animism, focusing on concepts of nonhuman agency afforded on one animist framework, that of the Ngöbe of Panama. Results from multiple studies using converging methods indicate that Ngöbe individuals have access to an ecocentric conceptual framework within which age…
Metaphor and the politics and poetics of youth distress in an evidence-based psychotherapy
This article explores the relationship between metaphors and emotion in the context of adolescent distress and psychotherapeutic treatment. Drawing on data from an ethnographic study of Mexican American adolescents receiving outpatient treatment for a variety of emotional and behavioral problems, the article examines what I call 'prescribed' metaphors deployed in mainstream, manualized child and adolescent Cognitive Behavioral Therapies commonly …
A quantitative morphometric comparative analysis of the primate temporal lobe
Distress, Dissociation, and Embodied Experience
This article explores the biocultural bases of spirit possession mediumship in the Afro-Brazilian religion, Candomblé. After a brief review of the literature, the article moves beyond the biomedical and social-structural explanations that have dominated the theoretical landscape, by attempting to construct an etiology of mediumship that is traced through the interface of individual characteristics with the cultural belief system that forms their …
From Affliction to Affirmation
Through the presentation and analysis of a prototypical mediumship narrative, this article shows how individuals initiated into the Candomblé religion of north-eastern Brazil come to alter their own self-narratives by learning and internalizing the cultural model for an established social/religious role: that of the medium. As individuals come to identify with this 'role model,' they are able to reinterpret their own life histories in terms of th…
Dissociative Experience and Cultural Neuroscience
Religion and the Politics of Ethnic Identity by Stephen Selka
Mental Health among Taiwanese Americans
Speaking through Diabetes
The disproportionate prevalence of Type II diabetes mellitus among the poor suggests that, in addition to lifestyle factors, social suffering may be embodied in diabetes. In this article, we examine the role of social distress in narratives collected from 26 Mexican Americans seeking diabetes care at a public hospital in Chicago. By linking social suffering with diabetes causality, we argue that our participants use diabetes much like an "idiom o…
The Unmaking and Making of Self
Discontinuities in the experience of self are distressing especially when they are unexpected, unsanctioned, and resist attribution. Such discontinuities are often a product of psychosocial and physical suffering. In this article I present a model of self that incorporates bodily experience as a fundamental building block and key source of discontinuity for a sense of self. Analysis of data from adherents of an African-derived spirit possession r…
Conclusion
The title of the introduction to this book, "Stepping into This Supernatural World," was borrowed from a quotation by one of the mediums with whom I spent a good deal of time, as she talked about the factors that lead to mediumship. As the title of the opening chapter, the phrase was meant to refer not only to how people come to participate in spirit possession, but also to serve as a metaphor for my own entry, and that of the reader, into the ve…
Sometimes Affliction Is the Door
To become a filho de santo, or possession medium within Candomblé, individuals must undergo an intensive initiation process typically lasting from 21 days to 3 months. This alone makes taking on the role of medium a major commitment. But mediumship also involves a great deal of ongoing responsibility, endless ritual duties and considerable expense, regular entry into an altered state of consciousness, submission of one's body to powerful spirits …
Introduction
On a blistering hot day early in my year of fieldwork in Salvador, Brazil, I set out to have a ritual divination performed on my behalf. I had come to Brazil to study spirit possession mediumship in the African-derived religion Candomblé, and motivated by curiosity and the desire to make connections within this spiritual community, I had made arrangements to have a spiritual leader1 perform a divination for me that would reveal to which of the Ca…
Looking Inside
At 11 pm, the festa for the goddess Oxum at Pai João's terreiro was just getting under way. Fireworks had been set off in the concrete yard outside, and people who had been milling around began to wander inside. The shutters of the terriero were flung wide and some onlookers hung their upper bodies through the windows, into the barracão, or central room. The room was bright white with a thatched ceiling, and for the festa it had been decorated wi…
Possessing spirits and healing selves embodiment and transformation in an Afro-Brazilian religion
Spirit possession involves the displacement of a human's conscious self by that of a powerful other - a spirit, god, or demon - who temporarily occupies the human's body. To many, spirit possession is quintessentially exotic, a novelty, an example of the ways in which "others" are fundamentally different. In this book, Seligman shows that, far from being exotic and "other," spirit possession mediumship represents a privileged site for understandi…
Self-care and Subjectivity among Mexican Diabetes Patients in the United States
Type 2 diabetes is considered a public health crisis, particularly among people of Mexican descent in the United States. Clinical approaches to diabetes management increasingly emphasize self-care, which places responsibility for illness on individuals and mandates self-regulation. Using narrative and free-list data from a two-phase study of low-income first- and second-generation Mexican immigrants living with diabetes, we present evidence that …
Mind, Body, Brain, and the Conditions of Meaning
This article explores the relationship between meaning and the body, and the role of mind and brain in mediating this relationship. Drawing on research on "grounded cognition" in cognitive neuropsychology, I consider the mechanisms through which meanings become embodied. I illustrate my argument using examples of the ways in which meaning conditions experiences of illness and health. Focusing especially on the example of religious healing through…
Dealing with the unknown. Functional neurological disorder (FND) and the conversion of cultural meaning
Cognition Beyond the Human
We present a new account of the cognitive commitments at stake in animist epistemologies. We use field-based cognitive experiments to contribute to anthropological theories of the new animism, focusing on concepts of nonhuman agency afforded on one animist framework, that of the Ngöbe of Panama. Results from multiple studies using converging methods indicate that Ngöbe individuals have access to an ecocentric conceptual framework within which age…
Metaphor and the politics and poetics of youth distress in an evidence-based psychotherapy
This article explores the relationship between metaphors and emotion in the context of adolescent distress and psychotherapeutic treatment. Drawing on data from an ethnographic study of Mexican American adolescents receiving outpatient treatment for a variety of emotional and behavioral problems, the article examines what I call 'prescribed' metaphors deployed in mainstream, manualized child and adolescent Cognitive Behavioral Therapies commonly …
Mothering and Mental Health Care
Biological Systems and Embodiment of the Social World
The Cambridge Handbook of Psychological Anthropology
Bringing together contributions from a global team of renowned scholars, this Handbook provides a comprehensive guide to the dynamic field of psychological anthropology. It is divided into five parts and includes a critical updating of the theoretical foundations for psychological anthropology, covering cognitive, psychodynamic, linguistic, and phenomenological views. It provides the first-ever lifespan perspective on human development in culture…
Somatic Symptoms Are Associated With Elevated Blood Pressure and Epstein–Barr Virus Antibodies Among Shuar of the Ecuadorian Amazon
INTRODUCTION: This study tests the hypothesis that self-reported somatic symptoms are associated with biomarkers of stress, including elevated blood pressure and suppressed immune function, among Shuar adults living in the Ecuadorian Amazon. METHODS: Research was conducted in three Shuar communities in the Upano Valley of the Ecuadorian Amazon and included the collection of biomarkers and a structured morbidity interview. Participants self-report…
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