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 (Forthcoming) 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.) (Forthcoming) Toward an Anthropology of the Will. Palo Alto: Stanford University Press.

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

Hollan, D. W. and C.J. Throop (2008) “Whatever Happened to Empathy?: Introduction.” Ethos 36(4): 385-401.

Throop, C.J. (2008) “On the Problem of Empathy: The Case of Yap, Federated States of Micronesia.” Ethos: 36(4). 402-426.

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. (2005) “Hypocognition, a ‘Sense of the Uncanny,’ and the Anthropology of Ambiguity: Reflections on Robert I. Levy’s Contribution to Theories of ‘Experience’ in Anthropology.” Ethos 33(4): 499-511.

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

Throop, C.J. (2003) “Minding Experience: An Exploration of the Concept of ‘Experience’ in the French Anthropology of Durkheim, Lévy-Bruhl, and Lévi-Strauss.” Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences 39(4):365-382.

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. (2002) "Experience, Coherence, and Culture: The Significance of Dilthey's 'Descriptive Psychology' for the Anthropology of Consciousness." Anthropology of Consciousness 13(1):2-26.

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

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