Is a Psychotic Anthropology Possible? Or How to Have Inclusive Anthropologies of Subjectivity and Personhood
Annual Review of Anthropology July 26, 2023 John Marlovits, Matthew Wolf‐meyer 6 citations
Dominant anthropological theories of mind and consciousness treat certain ways of being as normal, marginalizing those with nonnormative subjectivities. Drawing on the anthropology of disability and psychological anthropology, the authors argue that attending to atypical communication and behavior should be the basis for studying personhood and subjectivity. Building on affect theory and disability studies, this approach opens up conceptions of personhood and refocuses on the process of attribution. The article articulates a 'psychotic anthropology' that centers atypical forms of consciousness to unsettle assumptions about mind and cognition.