ABSTRACT
This volume explores culture-bound syndromes, defined as a pattern of symptoms (mental, physical, and/or relational) experienced only by members of a specific cultural group and recognized as a disorder by members of those groups, and their coverage in popular culture.
Encompassing a wide range of popular culture genres and mediums – from film and TV to literature, graphic novels, and anime – the chapters offer a dynamic mix of approaches to analyze how popular culture has engaged with specific culture-bound syndromes such as hwabyung, hikikomori, taijin kyofusho, zou huo ru mo, sati, amok, Cuban hysteria, voodoo death, and others.
Spanning a global and interdisciplinary remit, this first-of-its-kind anthology will allow scholars and students of popular culture, media and film studies, comparative literature, medical humanities, cultural psychiatry, and philosophy to explore simultaneously a diversity of popular cultures and culturally rooted mental health disorders.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|63 pages
East Asia
part II|100 pages
India and Southeast Asia
chapter 4|23 pages
Cultural Syndromes in India
chapter 5|18 pages
The Yakshi Syndrome in Indian Popular Culture
chapter 6|21 pages
Seeking the Maternal Uncle
chapter 8|17 pages
Rethinking Amok
part III|84 pages
America and Native American Culture
chapter 9|20 pages
The Next Frame Could Be My Redemption
chapter 10|21 pages
Wendigo Psychosis
chapter 12|22 pages
Digital Culture-Bound Syndromes
part IV|49 pages
Africa and the Middle East