E D Lowe
Biographic Data
| ID | 4900 |
|---|---|
| NAME | E D Lowe |
| GIVEN NAMES | E D |
| FAMILY NAME | Lowe |
| SIGNATURE | LOWE E D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Soka University of America |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0533-2584 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 106 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Psychological Anthropology in its Second Century
This chapter provides a brief overview of psychological anthropology as a subdiscipline in anthropology. It frames the development of psychological anthropology as a response to crises that emerged in anthropology more generally in the twentieth century and within psychological anthropology itself. There are three primary phases of development in the field, starting with Edward Sapir’s criticism of the “superorganic,” then the collapse of the “cu…
A cultural model of moral comportment in Chuuk: A study using cultural consensus theory
Are shared models always cultural models? A study of the cultural model of affect and emotion in Chuuk
Social Change and Micronesian Suicide Mortality: A Test of Competing Hypotheses
How do modernizing social changes affect suicide risks for youths in small economically developing societies? Since Durkheim, social researchers have hypothesized that processes of social disintegration and processes of normative cultural disequilibrium can increase suicide rates. A lifestyle incongruity hypothesis has also been proposed. This article tests these competing hypotheses for the epidemic of suicide that occurred on culturally diverse…
Kinship, Funerals, and the Durability of Culture in Chuuk
Introduction: Person-Centered Approaches in the Study of Culture and Poverty
This introduction to a special collection of articles on the theme of poverty and personhood provides an overview of the collection's response to recent calls for a reconsideration of culture in urban poverty studies. We argue that such a reconsideration must confront two theoretical problems if it is to be successful. First, the analyses must make a sustained effort to define clearly the theoretical model of "culture" used in the analyses and wh…
Whatever I Have to Do That's Right: Culture and the Precariousness of Personhood in a Poor Urban Neighborhood
This article presents a person-centered case study of one woman's struggles to realize a meaningful sense of personhood in a low-income urban neighborhood in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. An analysis of longitudinal ethnographic data for this case reveals how everyday aspirations toward a morally resonant lived-sense of personhood were informed by a core assemblage of three cultural models: "providing" and "being there" as a parent and doing so within a …
Expanding the Family Economic Stress Model: Insights From a Mixed-Methods Approach
The current study used a mixed-methods approach to examine how low-income mothers managed their household economies, their experiences of economic pressure, and the consequences for family and child functioning. Qualitative analyses (N = 32 families) revealed that experiences of economic pressure were associated with an inability to afford both basic needs and some modest but highly valued "extras." To meet demands, mothers reported using a varie…
Can child care assistance in welfare and employment programs support the employment of low‐income families
Policymakers have long recognized child care as a key ingredient in low‐income parents' employability. We examine the effects of expansions in child care policies that were bundled with a mix of employment‐related policies and implemented as part of several random assignment studies on families' child care access and cost. Almost all of these welfare and employment programs increased employment and led to concomitant increases in the use of child…
You have to push it—who's gonna raise your kids?’: Situating child care and child care subsidy use in the daily routines of lower income families
Identity, Activity, and the Well-Being of Adolescents and Youths: Lessons from Young People in a Micronesian Society
The New Shape of Old Island Cultures: A Half Century of Social Change in Micronesia
The years since World War II have brought unprecedented social change to Micronesia. Now, drawing on more than four decades of experience living and working in the region, Francis X. Hezel assesses the most striking changes to have swept over the islands in the past fifty years. His careful and comprehensive reading of Micronesian anthropology and history allows him to present insights into patterns of change touching the lives of not only Micron…
A Widow, a Child, and Two Lineages: Exploring Kinship and Attachment in Chuuk
This article brings together a life span perspective on emotional attachments and recent anthropological studies of the formation of personal and cultural understandings of kinship. It argues three main points. First, people share idealized cultural models of attachment that associate particular kinds of need fulfillment with particular kinds of kin-based social relationships. Second, these idealized models are the products of typical relational …
You have to push it—who's gonna raise your kids?’: Situating child care and child care subsidy use in the daily routines of lower income families
Expanding the Family Economic Stress Model: Insights From a Mixed-Methods Approach
The current study used a mixed-methods approach to examine how low-income mothers managed their household economies, their experiences of economic pressure, and the consequences for family and child functioning. Qualitative analyses (N = 32 families) revealed that experiences of economic pressure were associated with an inability to afford both basic needs and some modest but highly valued "extras." To meet demands, mothers reported using a varie…
Can child care assistance in welfare and employment programs support the employment of low‐income families
Policymakers have long recognized child care as a key ingredient in low‐income parents' employability. We examine the effects of expansions in child care policies that were bundled with a mix of employment‐related policies and implemented as part of several random assignment studies on families' child care access and cost. Almost all of these welfare and employment programs increased employment and led to concomitant increases in the use of child…
A Widow, a Child, and Two Lineages: Exploring Kinship and Attachment in Chuuk
This article brings together a life span perspective on emotional attachments and recent anthropological studies of the formation of personal and cultural understandings of kinship. It argues three main points. First, people share idealized cultural models of attachment that associate particular kinds of need fulfillment with particular kinds of kin-based social relationships. Second, these idealized models are the products of typical relational …
Whatever I Have to Do That's Right: Culture and the Precariousness of Personhood in a Poor Urban Neighborhood
This article presents a person-centered case study of one woman's struggles to realize a meaningful sense of personhood in a low-income urban neighborhood in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. An analysis of longitudinal ethnographic data for this case reveals how everyday aspirations toward a morally resonant lived-sense of personhood were informed by a core assemblage of three cultural models: "providing" and "being there" as a parent and doing so within a …
Introduction: Person-Centered Approaches in the Study of Culture and Poverty
This introduction to a special collection of articles on the theme of poverty and personhood provides an overview of the collection's response to recent calls for a reconsideration of culture in urban poverty studies. We argue that such a reconsideration must confront two theoretical problems if it is to be successful. First, the analyses must make a sustained effort to define clearly the theoretical model of "culture" used in the analyses and wh…
Are shared models always cultural models? A study of the cultural model of affect and emotion in Chuuk
Social Change and Micronesian Suicide Mortality: A Test of Competing Hypotheses
How do modernizing social changes affect suicide risks for youths in small economically developing societies? Since Durkheim, social researchers have hypothesized that processes of social disintegration and processes of normative cultural disequilibrium can increase suicide rates. A lifestyle incongruity hypothesis has also been proposed. This article tests these competing hypotheses for the epidemic of suicide that occurred on culturally diverse…
The New Shape of Old Island Cultures: A Half Century of Social Change in Micronesia
The years since World War II have brought unprecedented social change to Micronesia. Now, drawing on more than four decades of experience living and working in the region, Francis X. Hezel assesses the most striking changes to have swept over the islands in the past fifty years. His careful and comprehensive reading of Micronesian anthropology and history allows him to present insights into patterns of change touching the lives of not only Micron…
A Widow, a Child, and Two Lineages: Exploring Kinship and Attachment in Chuuk
This article brings together a life span perspective on emotional attachments and recent anthropological studies of the formation of personal and cultural understandings of kinship. It argues three main points. First, people share idealized cultural models of attachment that associate particular kinds of need fulfillment with particular kinds of kin-based social relationships. Second, these idealized models are the products of typical relational …
Identity, Activity, and the Well-Being of Adolescents and Youths: Lessons from Young People in a Micronesian Society
Can child care assistance in welfare and employment programs support the employment of low‐income families
Policymakers have long recognized child care as a key ingredient in low‐income parents' employability. We examine the effects of expansions in child care policies that were bundled with a mix of employment‐related policies and implemented as part of several random assignment studies on families' child care access and cost. Almost all of these welfare and employment programs increased employment and led to concomitant increases in the use of child…
You have to push it—who's gonna raise your kids?’: Situating child care and child care subsidy use in the daily routines of lower income families
Expanding the Family Economic Stress Model: Insights From a Mixed-Methods Approach
The current study used a mixed-methods approach to examine how low-income mothers managed their household economies, their experiences of economic pressure, and the consequences for family and child functioning. Qualitative analyses (N = 32 families) revealed that experiences of economic pressure were associated with an inability to afford both basic needs and some modest but highly valued "extras." To meet demands, mothers reported using a varie…
Kinship, Funerals, and the Durability of Culture in Chuuk
Introduction: Person-Centered Approaches in the Study of Culture and Poverty
This introduction to a special collection of articles on the theme of poverty and personhood provides an overview of the collection's response to recent calls for a reconsideration of culture in urban poverty studies. We argue that such a reconsideration must confront two theoretical problems if it is to be successful. First, the analyses must make a sustained effort to define clearly the theoretical model of "culture" used in the analyses and wh…
Whatever I Have to Do That's Right: Culture and the Precariousness of Personhood in a Poor Urban Neighborhood
This article presents a person-centered case study of one woman's struggles to realize a meaningful sense of personhood in a low-income urban neighborhood in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. An analysis of longitudinal ethnographic data for this case reveals how everyday aspirations toward a morally resonant lived-sense of personhood were informed by a core assemblage of three cultural models: "providing" and "being there" as a parent and doing so within a …
Social Change and Micronesian Suicide Mortality: A Test of Competing Hypotheses
How do modernizing social changes affect suicide risks for youths in small economically developing societies? Since Durkheim, social researchers have hypothesized that processes of social disintegration and processes of normative cultural disequilibrium can increase suicide rates. A lifestyle incongruity hypothesis has also been proposed. This article tests these competing hypotheses for the epidemic of suicide that occurred on culturally diverse…
Are shared models always cultural models? A study of the cultural model of affect and emotion in Chuuk
A cultural model of moral comportment in Chuuk: A study using cultural consensus theory
Psychological Anthropology in its Second Century
This chapter provides a brief overview of psychological anthropology as a subdiscipline in anthropology. It frames the development of psychological anthropology as a response to crises that emerged in anthropology more generally in the twentieth century and within psychological anthropology itself. There are three primary phases of development in the field, starting with Edward Sapir’s criticism of the “superorganic,” then the collapse of the “cu…
Sociology (8 works) · Psychology (7 works) · Anthropology (5 works) · Social Psychology (5 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · Ethnography (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (3 works) · Cultural Differences and Values (3 works)