APTPUO - Winter 2025 - ANT3132A00

  • Ottawa
  • University Of Ottawa
Description :The study of personhood, the self, and identity as historically specific concepts, and the emotions as culturally determined. Transcultural psychiatry and ethnopsychology as questioning ideas of pathological and abnormal behaviours. A view of biomedical understandings of mental illness as cultural constructs with a challenge to the universal validity of diagnostic categories and conventional understandings of depression, schizophrenia, and traumatic disorders. The psychological sciences as objects of anthropological inquiry and a critique of dominant psycho pharmaceutical approaches and the medicalization of normality. The complex relationship between mind, brain, and culture.Posting limited to:Professeur à temps-partiel régulier / Regular Part-Time ProfessorDate Posted:avril 19, 2024Closing Date:mai 20, 2024Note: Applications will be accepted until 11:59 PM on the day prior to the Posting End Date aboveExpected Enrolment:74Approval date:avril 19, 2024Number of credits:3Work Hours:39Course type:BPosting type:Régulier / RegularLanguage of instruction:Anglais | EnglishCompetence in second language:PassiveCourse Schedule:Mardi | Tuesday 19:00-22:00 - - In-person courseRequirements:Requirements: M.A. in anthropology and completed anthropology Ph.D. coursework or a more advanced training in anthropology. Demonstrable track record of expertise in the field Psychological Anthropology in the form of previous teaching experience in the same or similar course or through publications in the field. In conformity with article 5.7.1b of the Collective Agreement, in the case of a candidate who does not meet these requirements, the department reserves the right not to classify him/her in at least category A (see article 5.7.2) even if he/she has previously taught the course in question as regular part-time academic staff.Teaching mode: in-person courseAn acceptable level of education and/or experience could be viewed as being equivalent to the educational required and/or demonstrated experience.