Kevin P Groark
Biographic Data
| ID | 92687 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kevin P Groark |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kevin P |
| FAMILY NAME | Groark |
| SIGNATURE | GROARK K P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Southern California |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5593-0430 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 101 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Freud among the Boasians: Psychoanalytic Influence and Ambivalence in American Anthropology
In this article, I present an unpublished letter in which Franz Boas offers what would become his final remarks on the work of Sigmund Freud and the influence of psychoanalysis on anthropology. I explore the intellectual and interpersonal field of early psychoanalytic anthropology, outlining Boas's empirical objections to Freud's "ethnology" (what we might call the letter's manifest content), while exploring the less obvious latent factors underp…
Entre sueños y realidades: La cultura onírica entre los tzotziles de San Juan Chamula en Los Altos de Chiapas
Los mayas tzotziles de Chiapas mantienen una elaborada cul tura del sueño que postula un tráfico de dos sentidos entre la expe riencia onírica y la de vigilia. En contraste con el presunto solipsismo del sueño, propio de los entendimientos occidentales, el sueño maya es altamente interpersonal y abierto al mundo social. Al postular una profunda continuidad entre las experiencias de vigilia y la onírica, el espacio del sueño maya se convierte en u…
Specters of Social Antagonism: The Cultural Psychodynamics of Dream Aggression among the Tzotzil Maya of San Juan Chamula (Chiapas, Mexico)
In this article, I present an analysis of "persecution dreams" among the Tzotzil Maya of San Juan Chamula, discussing the complex connections among sickness, interpersonal aggression, ideologies of social antagonism, and the spectral phantasies that shadow these social phenomena. Building on this ethnographic foundation, I present a "cultural psychodynamic" account framed in terms of projective-introjective dynamics (functioning at both the indiv…
Toward a cultural phenomenology of intersubjectivity: The extended relational field of the Tzotzil Maya of highland Chiapas, Mexico
The Angel in the Gourd: Ritual, Therapeutic, and Protective Uses of Tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum) Among the Tzeltal and Tzotzil Maya of Chiapas, Mexico
In this article, I document contemporary highland Maya use of traditional tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum) preparations among the highland Maya (Tzeltal-Tzotzil) of Chiapas, Mexico.Among the Ancient Maya, Nicotiana was considered a sacred plant, closely associated with deities of earth and sky, and used for both visionary and therapeutic ends.The contemporary Tzeltal and Tzotzil Maya of Highland Chiapas are bearers of this ethnobotanical inheritance, …
Discourses of the soul: The negotiation of personal agency in Tzotzil Maya dream narrative
In this article, I examine the framing of personal agency in Tzotzil Maya dream narrative. Drawing on contemporary linguistic, psychodynamic, and phenomenological approaches, I focus on the lexical and semantic resources typical of highland Maya dream talk, illustrating the way these resources can be used to pragmatically negotiate questions of volition and authorial responsibility in relation to dream experience. By locating experience at a dist…
Social Opacity and the Dynamics of Empathic In-Sight among the Tzotzil Maya of Chiapas, Mexico
In this article, I explore local constructions of empathic access and social knowing among the highland Maya of San Juan Chamula. I argue that a pervasive sense of social opacity-a presumed inability to accurately know the motivations, potencies, and identities of social others-gives rise to a moral-interpretive dilemma centering on the degree of concordance between the publicly presented self and the subjective or "private" self. I introduce the…
Vital warmth and well-being: Steambathing as household therapy among the Tzeltal and Tzotzil Maya of highland Chiapas, Mexico
Social Opacity and the Dynamics of Empathic In-Sight among the Tzotzil Maya of Chiapas, Mexico
In this article, I explore local constructions of empathic access and social knowing among the highland Maya of San Juan Chamula. I argue that a pervasive sense of social opacity-a presumed inability to accurately know the motivations, potencies, and identities of social others-gives rise to a moral-interpretive dilemma centering on the degree of concordance between the publicly presented self and the subjective or "private" self. I introduce the…
Discourses of the soul: The negotiation of personal agency in Tzotzil Maya dream narrative
In this article, I examine the framing of personal agency in Tzotzil Maya dream narrative. Drawing on contemporary linguistic, psychodynamic, and phenomenological approaches, I focus on the lexical and semantic resources typical of highland Maya dream talk, illustrating the way these resources can be used to pragmatically negotiate questions of volition and authorial responsibility in relation to dream experience. By locating experience at a dist…
Toward a cultural phenomenology of intersubjectivity: The extended relational field of the Tzotzil Maya of highland Chiapas, Mexico
Vital warmth and well-being: Steambathing as household therapy among the Tzeltal and Tzotzil Maya of highland Chiapas, Mexico
The Angel in the Gourd: Ritual, Therapeutic, and Protective Uses of Tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum) Among the Tzeltal and Tzotzil Maya of Chiapas, Mexico
In this article, I document contemporary highland Maya use of traditional tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum) preparations among the highland Maya (Tzeltal-Tzotzil) of Chiapas, Mexico.Among the Ancient Maya, Nicotiana was considered a sacred plant, closely associated with deities of earth and sky, and used for both visionary and therapeutic ends.The contemporary Tzeltal and Tzotzil Maya of Highland Chiapas are bearers of this ethnobotanical inheritance, …
Freud among the Boasians: Psychoanalytic Influence and Ambivalence in American Anthropology
In this article, I present an unpublished letter in which Franz Boas offers what would become his final remarks on the work of Sigmund Freud and the influence of psychoanalysis on anthropology. I explore the intellectual and interpersonal field of early psychoanalytic anthropology, outlining Boas's empirical objections to Freud's "ethnology" (what we might call the letter's manifest content), while exploring the less obvious latent factors underp…
Specters of Social Antagonism: The Cultural Psychodynamics of Dream Aggression among the Tzotzil Maya of San Juan Chamula (Chiapas, Mexico)
In this article, I present an analysis of "persecution dreams" among the Tzotzil Maya of San Juan Chamula, discussing the complex connections among sickness, interpersonal aggression, ideologies of social antagonism, and the spectral phantasies that shadow these social phenomena. Building on this ethnographic foundation, I present a "cultural psychodynamic" account framed in terms of projective-introjective dynamics (functioning at both the indiv…
Entre sueños y realidades: La cultura onírica entre los tzotziles de San Juan Chamula en Los Altos de Chiapas
Los mayas tzotziles de Chiapas mantienen una elaborada cul tura del sueño que postula un tráfico de dos sentidos entre la expe riencia onírica y la de vigilia. En contraste con el presunto solipsismo del sueño, propio de los entendimientos occidentales, el sueño maya es altamente interpersonal y abierto al mundo social. Al postular una profunda continuidad entre las experiencias de vigilia y la onírica, el espacio del sueño maya se convierte en u…
Vital warmth and well-being: Steambathing as household therapy among the Tzeltal and Tzotzil Maya of highland Chiapas, Mexico
Social Opacity and the Dynamics of Empathic In-Sight among the Tzotzil Maya of Chiapas, Mexico
In this article, I explore local constructions of empathic access and social knowing among the highland Maya of San Juan Chamula. I argue that a pervasive sense of social opacity-a presumed inability to accurately know the motivations, potencies, and identities of social others-gives rise to a moral-interpretive dilemma centering on the degree of concordance between the publicly presented self and the subjective or "private" self. I introduce the…
Discourses of the soul: The negotiation of personal agency in Tzotzil Maya dream narrative
In this article, I examine the framing of personal agency in Tzotzil Maya dream narrative. Drawing on contemporary linguistic, psychodynamic, and phenomenological approaches, I focus on the lexical and semantic resources typical of highland Maya dream talk, illustrating the way these resources can be used to pragmatically negotiate questions of volition and authorial responsibility in relation to dream experience. By locating experience at a dist…
The Angel in the Gourd: Ritual, Therapeutic, and Protective Uses of Tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum) Among the Tzeltal and Tzotzil Maya of Chiapas, Mexico
In this article, I document contemporary highland Maya use of traditional tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum) preparations among the highland Maya (Tzeltal-Tzotzil) of Chiapas, Mexico.Among the Ancient Maya, Nicotiana was considered a sacred plant, closely associated with deities of earth and sky, and used for both visionary and therapeutic ends.The contemporary Tzeltal and Tzotzil Maya of Highland Chiapas are bearers of this ethnobotanical inheritance, …
Toward a cultural phenomenology of intersubjectivity: The extended relational field of the Tzotzil Maya of highland Chiapas, Mexico
Entre sueños y realidades: La cultura onírica entre los tzotziles de San Juan Chamula en Los Altos de Chiapas
Los mayas tzotziles de Chiapas mantienen una elaborada cul tura del sueño que postula un tráfico de dos sentidos entre la expe riencia onírica y la de vigilia. En contraste con el presunto solipsismo del sueño, propio de los entendimientos occidentales, el sueño maya es altamente interpersonal y abierto al mundo social. Al postular una profunda continuidad entre las experiencias de vigilia y la onírica, el espacio del sueño maya se convierte en u…
Specters of Social Antagonism: The Cultural Psychodynamics of Dream Aggression among the Tzotzil Maya of San Juan Chamula (Chiapas, Mexico)
In this article, I present an analysis of "persecution dreams" among the Tzotzil Maya of San Juan Chamula, discussing the complex connections among sickness, interpersonal aggression, ideologies of social antagonism, and the spectral phantasies that shadow these social phenomena. Building on this ethnographic foundation, I present a "cultural psychodynamic" account framed in terms of projective-introjective dynamics (functioning at both the indiv…
Freud among the Boasians: Psychoanalytic Influence and Ambivalence in American Anthropology
In this article, I present an unpublished letter in which Franz Boas offers what would become his final remarks on the work of Sigmund Freud and the influence of psychoanalysis on anthropology. I explore the intellectual and interpersonal field of early psychoanalytic anthropology, outlining Boas's empirical objections to Freud's "ethnology" (what we might call the letter's manifest content), while exploring the less obvious latent factors underp…
Psychology (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Maya (6 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Dream (4 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Psychoanalysis (3 works) · Psychotherapist (3 works)