Jocelyn Marrow
Biographic Data
| ID | 630719 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jocelyn Marrow |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jocelyn |
| FAMILY NAME | Marrow |
| SIGNATURE | MARROW J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Stanford University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Hysteria
This is an advance summary of a forthcoming article in the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Anthropology. Please check back later for the full article. Even though hysteria is no longer a diagnostic category in Western medical systems, the phenomena to which it referred have remained productive of anthropological deliberation. This may be due to the dramatic and highly variable nature of hysterias and related afflictions as observed. Hysterias are…
Hysteria Narratives and Love-in-Separation ( Viraha ) in North India
This article examines first-person narratives of a hysteria-like illness, referred to locally as ‘clenched teeth (daant lag gaya)’. In Varanasi, India, the distinguishing sign of ‘clenched teeth’ is a tightly closed mouth, and symptoms involve seizure-like or fainting behaviours. I show how North Indian women improvised upon expressive genres of love-in-separation (viraha) to narrate their experiences of this illness. Drawing upon the symbolic st…
Our Most Troubling Madness
This book examines the way schizophrenia is shaped by its social context: how life is lived with this madness in different settings, and what it is about those settings that alters the course of the illness, its outcome, and even the structure of its symptoms. Until recently, schizophrenia was perhaps our best example—our poster child—for the “bio-bio-bio” model of psychiatric illness: genetic cause, brain alteration, pharmacologic treatment. We …
Our Most Troubling Madness
Feminine power or feminine weakness? North Indian girls' struggles with aspirations, agency, and psychosomatic illness
In Hindi-speaking northeastern India, mothers whose daughters are afflicted with a psychosomatic illness referred to locally as "the teeth have clenched" employ standard tropes pertaining to Indian femininity to negotiate their daughters' agency against the backdrop of new aspirations. An inquiry into two cases I encountered during fieldwork in Varanasi psychiatric clinics in 2001-04 demonstrates how girls' symptomatic bodies mediated social conc…
The rhetoric of women and children's rights in Indian psychiatry
Despite heavy patient caseloads and limited resources, psychiatric professionals of North Indian public teaching hospitals aspire to deliver psychosocial interventions along with pharmaceutical or biologic treatments. However, significant obstacles stand in the way of the success of these interventions. This paper discusses how the relative social and political status differences between elite professionals and their non-elite patients and patien…
The Zone of Social Abandonment in Cultural Geography
A Cross-Cultural Investigation of the Role of Foot Size in Physical Attractiveness
Disparate cultural practices suggest that small foot size may contribute to female attractiveness. Two hypotheses potentially explain such a pattern. Sexual dimorphism in foot size may lead observers to view small feet as feminine and large feet as masculine. Alternately, because small female feet index both youth and nulliparity, evolution may have favored a male preference for this attribute in order to maximize returns on male reproductive inv…
Feminine power or feminine weakness? North Indian girls' struggles with aspirations, agency, and psychosomatic illness
In Hindi-speaking northeastern India, mothers whose daughters are afflicted with a psychosomatic illness referred to locally as "the teeth have clenched" employ standard tropes pertaining to Indian femininity to negotiate their daughters' agency against the backdrop of new aspirations. An inquiry into two cases I encountered during fieldwork in Varanasi psychiatric clinics in 2001-04 demonstrates how girls' symptomatic bodies mediated social conc…
A Cross-Cultural Investigation of the Role of Foot Size in Physical Attractiveness
Disparate cultural practices suggest that small foot size may contribute to female attractiveness. Two hypotheses potentially explain such a pattern. Sexual dimorphism in foot size may lead observers to view small feet as feminine and large feet as masculine. Alternately, because small female feet index both youth and nulliparity, evolution may have favored a male preference for this attribute in order to maximize returns on male reproductive inv…
A Cross-Cultural Investigation of the Role of Foot Size in Physical Attractiveness
Disparate cultural practices suggest that small foot size may contribute to female attractiveness. Two hypotheses potentially explain such a pattern. Sexual dimorphism in foot size may lead observers to view small feet as feminine and large feet as masculine. Alternately, because small female feet index both youth and nulliparity, evolution may have favored a male preference for this attribute in order to maximize returns on male reproductive inv…
The Zone of Social Abandonment in Cultural Geography
Feminine power or feminine weakness? North Indian girls' struggles with aspirations, agency, and psychosomatic illness
In Hindi-speaking northeastern India, mothers whose daughters are afflicted with a psychosomatic illness referred to locally as "the teeth have clenched" employ standard tropes pertaining to Indian femininity to negotiate their daughters' agency against the backdrop of new aspirations. An inquiry into two cases I encountered during fieldwork in Varanasi psychiatric clinics in 2001-04 demonstrates how girls' symptomatic bodies mediated social conc…
The rhetoric of women and children's rights in Indian psychiatry
Despite heavy patient caseloads and limited resources, psychiatric professionals of North Indian public teaching hospitals aspire to deliver psychosocial interventions along with pharmaceutical or biologic treatments. However, significant obstacles stand in the way of the success of these interventions. This paper discusses how the relative social and political status differences between elite professionals and their non-elite patients and patien…
Our Most Troubling Madness
This book examines the way schizophrenia is shaped by its social context: how life is lived with this madness in different settings, and what it is about those settings that alters the course of the illness, its outcome, and even the structure of its symptoms. Until recently, schizophrenia was perhaps our best example—our poster child—for the “bio-bio-bio” model of psychiatric illness: genetic cause, brain alteration, pharmacologic treatment. We …
Our Most Troubling Madness
Hysteria
This is an advance summary of a forthcoming article in the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Anthropology. Please check back later for the full article. Even though hysteria is no longer a diagnostic category in Western medical systems, the phenomena to which it referred have remained productive of anthropological deliberation. This may be due to the dramatic and highly variable nature of hysterias and related afflictions as observed. Hysterias are…
Hysteria Narratives and Love-in-Separation ( Viraha ) in North India
This article examines first-person narratives of a hysteria-like illness, referred to locally as ‘clenched teeth (daant lag gaya)’. In Varanasi, India, the distinguishing sign of ‘clenched teeth’ is a tightly closed mouth, and symptoms involve seizure-like or fainting behaviours. I show how North Indian women improvised upon expressive genres of love-in-separation (viraha) to narrate their experiences of this illness. Drawing upon the symbolic st…
Psychology (8 works) · Mental health (3 works) · Mental Health and Psychiatry (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Psychiatry (3 works) · Psychoanalysis (3 works) · Social Psychology (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Developmental psychology (2 works) · Elite (2 works)