APTPUO - Fall 2026 - ANT3132 A00

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Posting Reason: New Position Location: Main Campus Academic Period: 2026 Fall Semester Faculty: Faculté des sciences sociales / Faculty of Social Sciences Academic Unit: École d’études sociologiques et anthropologiques \\ School of Sociological and Anthropological Studies Course Title: Psychological Anthropology Course Code: ANT3132 Section: A00 Course 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 Professor Date Posted (YYYY/MM/DD): 2026/05/01 Applications must be re...