Linda C Garro

PROFESSOR

Ph.D., Duke 1982 [Psychology], UC Irvine 1983 [Social Sciences]

Class Websites

Office: 316A Haines Hall
Phone: 310-206-6249
Fax: 310-206-7833
E-mail: lgarro@anthro.ucla.edu

Mailing Address:

Subfield

Socio-Cultural Anthropology

Research Interests

Cognitive anthropology, medical anthropology, research methods; Mesoamerica, northern North America.

Selected Publications

1998 On the Rationality of Decision Making Studies: Part 1: Decision Models of Treatment
Choice. Medical Anthropology Quarterly 12(3).

1998 On the Rationality of Decision Making Studies: Part 2: Divergent Rationalities. Medical Anthropology Quarterly 12(3).

2000 The 1999 Stirling Award Essay Remembering What One Knows and the Construction of the Past: A Comparison of Cultural Consensus Theory and Cultural Schema Theory. Ethos 28:275-319.

2000 Narrative and the Cultural Construction of Illness and Healing. eds. L. Garro and Cheryl Mattingly. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press.

2001 The Remembered Past in a Culturally Meaningful Life: Rembering as Cultural, Social and Cognitive Process. In The Psychology of Cultural Experience. eds H. Matthews and C. Moore. Pp. 105-147. Cambridge: Cambrigde University Press.

---

Edit This Page