C. Jason Throop

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR

Ph.D. UCLA 2005

Personal Homepage

Class Websites

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

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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

BOOKS
Hollan, D.W. and C.J. Throop (Eds.) 2011. The Anthropology of Empathy: Experiencing the Lives of Others in Pacific Societies. Oxford: Berghahn.

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

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

ARTICLES/BOOK CHAPTERS
Throop, C.J. 2012 “On the Varieties of Empathic Experience: Tactility, Mental Opacity, and Pain in Yap. Medical Anthropology Quarterly. 26(3): 408-430.

Throop, C.J. 2012. "Moral Sentiments." In Didier Fassin (ed.), A Companion to Moral Anthropology. Wiley-Blackwell. Pg. 150-168.

Throop, C.J. 2012. "On Inaccessibility and Vulnerability: Some Horizons of Compatibility between Phenomenology and Psychoanalysis." Ethos 40(1): 75-96.

Desjarlais, R. and C.J. Throop. 2011. “Phenomenological Approaches in Anthropology.” Annual Review of Anthropology. 40: 87-102.

Throop, C.J. 2010. "Latitudes of Loss: On the Vicissitudes of Empathy." American Ethnologist 37(4): 771-782.

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

Throop, C.J. 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.

Throop, C.J. 2008. “From Pain to Virtue: Dysphoric Sensations and Moral Sensibilities in Yap (Waqab), Federated States of Micronesia.” Journal of Transcultural Psychiatry 45(2): 253-286.

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

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

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

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