C. Jason Throop

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR

Ph.D. UCLA 2005

Class Websites

Office: 370 Haines
Phone: x42190
Fax: 310-206-7833
E-mail: jthroop@ucla.edu

Mailing Address:

Subfield

Psychocultural and Medical Anthropology

Research Interests

Psychological and medical anthropology, phenomenology, theories of experience in anthropology, self and subjective experience, empathy, pain/sensation/emotion, morality, temporality, anthropology of the will, Yap (Federated States of Micronesia)

Selected Publications

C. J. Throop (2010) Suffering and Sentiment: Exploring the Vicissitudes of Experience and Pain in Yap. Berkeley: University of California Press.

K.M. Murphy and C.J. Throop (eds.) (2010) Toward an Anthropology of the Will. Palo Alto: Stanford University Press.

C. J. Throop (2009) "Intermediary Varieties of Experience." Ethnos 74(4): 535-558.

C. J. Throop (2009) “Interpretation and the Limits of Interpretability: On Rethinking Clifford Geertz’ Semiotics of Religious Experience.” Journal of North African Studies 14(3/4): 369-384.

C. J. Throop and D.W. Hollan (eds) (2008) Whatever Happened to Empathy? Special issue of Ethos 36 (4).

Throop, C.J. (2008) “From Pain to Virtue: Dysphoric Sensations and Moral Sensibilities in Yap (Waqab), Federated States of Micronesia.” Special Issue, Medical Anthropology of Sensation, Devon Hinton, Laurence Kirmayer, and David Howes (eds.), Journal of Transcultural Psychiatry 45(2): 253-286.

Mattingly, C., Lutkehaus, N. and C.J. Throop (2008) "Bruner's Search for Meaning: A Conversation between Psychology and Anthropology." Ethos 36(1):1-28.

Throop, C.J. and C.D. Laughlin (2007) “Anthropology of Consciousness.” Pg. 631-672 in Philip David Zelazo, Morris Moscovitch, and Evan Thompson (eds.) Cambridge Handbook of Consciousness. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Throop, C. J. (2003) "Articulating Experience." Anthropological Theory 3(2). 219-241.

Throop, C.J. (2003) "On Crafting a Cultural Mind - A Comparative Assessment of Some Recent Theories of 'Internalization' in Psychological Anthropology." Transcultural Psychiatry 40(1):109-139.

Throop, C. J. and K.M. Murphy (2002) "Bourdieu and Phenomenology: A critical assessment." Anthropological Theory 2(2):185-207.

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