Roy Richard Grinker's Books

Unstrange Minds

Remapping the World of Autism

By: Roy Richard Grinker

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Unstrange Minds

Remapping the World of Autism

By: Roy Richard Grinker

A father's attempt to understand his daughter's autism leads him on a journey around the world to learn how societies view the widely diagnosed disorder.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

354

Published Date

ISBN 10

0465027644

ISBN 13

9780465027644

Nobody's Normal: How Culture Created the Stigma of Mental Illness

By: Roy Richard Grinker

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Nobody's Normal: How Culture Created the Stigma of Mental Illness

By: Roy Richard Grinker

A compassionate and captivating examination of evolving attitudes toward mental illness throughout history and the fight to end the stigma. For centuries, scientists and society cast moral judgments on anyone deemed mentally ill, confining many to asylums. In Nobody’s Normal, anthropologist Roy Richard Grinker chronicles the progress and setbacks in the struggle against mental-illness stigma—from the eighteenth century, through America’s major wars, and into today’s high-tech economy. Nobody’s Normal argues that stigma is a social process that can be explained through cultural history, a process that began the moment we defined mental illness, that we learn from within our communities, and that we ultimately have the power to change. Though the legacies of shame and secrecy are still with us today, Grinker writes that we are at the cusp of ending the marginalization of the mentally ill. In the twenty-first century, mental illnesses are fast becoming a more accepted and visible part of human diversity. Grinker infuses the book with the personal history of his family’s four generations of involvement in psychiatry, including his grandfather’s analysis with Sigmund Freud, his own daughter’s experience with autism, and culminating in his research on neurodiversity. Drawing on cutting-edge science, historical archives, and cross-cultural research in Africa and Asia, Grinker takes readers on an international journey to discover the origins of, and variances in, our cultural response to neurodiversity. Urgent, eye-opening, and ultimately hopeful, Nobody’s Normal explains how we are transforming mental illness and offers a path to end the shadow of stigma.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

448

Publisher

W. W. Norton & Company

Published Date

ISBN 10

0393531651

ISBN 13

9780393531657

In the Arms of Africa

The Life of Colin Turnbull

By: Roy Richard Grinker

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

In the Arms of Africa

The Life of Colin Turnbull

By: Roy Richard Grinker

Colin Turnbull made a name for himself with The Forest People, his acclaimed study of African Pygmies. His second book, however, The Mountain People, ignited a swirl of controversy within anthropology and tainted Turnbull's reputation as a respected anthropologist. In this scrupulously researched biography, Roy Richard Grinker charts the rise and fall of this colorful and controversial man—from his Scottish family and British education to travels in Africa and his great love affair with Joe Towles. Grinker, noted for his own work on the Pygmies, herein gives readers a fascinating account of Turnbull's life and work. Originally published by St. Martin's Press

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

375

Publisher

University of Chicago Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0226309045

ISBN 13

9780226309040

Nobody's Normal: How Culture Created the Stigma of Mental Illness

By: Roy Richard Grinker

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Nobody's Normal: How Culture Created the Stigma of Mental Illness

By: Roy Richard Grinker

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

448

Publisher

W. W. Norton & Company

Published Date

ISBN 10

0393531651

ISBN 13

9780393531657

Houses in the Rainforest

Ethnicity and Inequality Among Farmers and Foragers in Central Africa

By: Roy Richard Grinker

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Houses in the Rainforest

Ethnicity and Inequality Among Farmers and Foragers in Central Africa

By: Roy Richard Grinker

This is the first ethnographic study of the farmers and foragers of northeastern Zaire since Colin Turnbull's classic works of the 1960s. Roy Richard Grinker lived for nearly two years among the Lese farmers and their long-term partners, the Efe (Pygmies), learned their languages, and gained unique insights into their complex social relations and ethnic identities. By showing how political organization is structured by ethnic and gender relations in the Lese house, Grinker challenges previous views of the Lese and Efe and other farmer-forager societies, as well as the conventional anthropological boundary between domestic and political contexts.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

244

Publisher

Univ of California Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0520915666

ISBN 13

9780520915664

Unstrange Minds

Remapping the World of Autism

By: Roy Richard Grinker

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Unstrange Minds

Remapping the World of Autism

By: Roy Richard Grinker

A father's inspiring portrait of his daughter informs this classic reassessment of the "epidemic" of autism. When Isabel Grinker was diagnosed with autism in 1994, it occurred in only about 3 of every 10,000 children. Within ten years, rates had skyrocketed. Some scientists reported rates as high as 1 in 150. The media had declared autism an epidemic. Unstrange Minds documents the global quest of Isabel's father, renowned anthropologist Roy Richard Grinker, to discover the surprising truth about why autism is so much more common today. In fact, there is no autism epidemic. Rather, we are experiencing an increase in autism diagnoses, and Grinker shows that the identification and treatment of autism depends on culture just as much as it does on science. Filled with moving stories and informed by the latest science, Unstrange Minds is a powerful testament to a father's search for the truth.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

354

Publisher

Basic Books

Published Date

ISBN 10

0786721928

ISBN 13

9780786721924

Korea and Its Futures

Unification and the Unfinished War

By: NA NA

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Korea and Its Futures

Unification and the Unfinished War

By: NA NA

Despite the passage of over forty years since the official end of the civil war in Korea, the north and the south sections of the country remain technically at war. In Korea and Its Futures, Roy Richard Grinker argues that the continued conflict between North and South Korea, and the prospects for peace on the Korean peninsula, must be understood within the broader social and cultural contexts in which Koreans live. Grinker suggests that a fundamental obstacle to peace on the peninsula is that South Korea has become a nation in which nearly all aspects of economic, political, and cultural identity are defined in opposition to North Korea. He further demonstrates that in spite of its status as a sacred goal for all Koreans, the idea of unification threatens the world in which almost every South Korean has been born and raised. In chapters on defectors, divided families, student protests, and early education, Grinker reveals how South Korean conceptions of unification prevent either side from recognizing that a unified Korea must also be a diverse Korea. In other words, Grinker points out, unification is largely perceived by South Koreans not as the integration of different identities but as the southern conquest and assimilation of the north - in short, as winning the war. Korea and Its Futures is a critical and illuminating look at a conflict which has refused to yield despite changes in a post-Cold War world.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

316

Publisher

Palgrave Macmillan

Published Date

ISBN 10

0312224729

ISBN 13

9780312224721

Houses in the Rain Forest

Ethnicity and Inequality Among Farmers and Foragers in Central Africa

By: Roy Richard Grinker

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Houses in the Rain Forest

Ethnicity and Inequality Among Farmers and Foragers in Central Africa

By: Roy Richard Grinker

Roy Richard Grinker, writing about the relationship between Pygmies and their farmer counterparts, breaks new ground in the theory of social institutions and ethnicity."--Jan Vansina, University of Wisconsin, Madison

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

225

Publisher

Univ of California Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0520083571

ISBN 13

9780520083578

Houses in the Rainforest

Ethnicity and Inequality Among Farmers and Foragers in Central Africa

By: Roy Richard Grinker

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Houses in the Rainforest

Ethnicity and Inequality Among Farmers and Foragers in Central Africa

By: Roy Richard Grinker

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

244

Publisher

Univ of California Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0520915666

ISBN 13

9780520915664

Korea and its Futures

Unification and the Unfinished War

By: Roy Grinker

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Korea and its Futures

Unification and the Unfinished War

By: Roy Grinker

Despite the passage of over forty years since the official end of the civil war in Korea, the north and the south sections of the country remain technically at war. In Korea and its Futures , Roy Grinker argues that the continued conflict between North and South Korea, and the prospects for peace on the Korean peninsula, must be understood within the broader social and cultural contexts in which Koreans live. Grinker suggests that a fundamental obstacle to peace on the peninsula is that South Korea has become a nation in which nearly all aspects of economic, political, and cultural identity are defined in opposition to North Korea. He further demonstrates that in spite of its status as a sacred goal for all Koreans, the idea of unification threatens the world in which almost every South Korean has been born and raised. In chapters on defectors, divided families, student protests, and early education, Grinker reveals how South Korean conceptions of unification prevent either side from recognizing that a unified Korea must also be a diverse Korea. In other words, Grinker points out, unification is largely perceived by South Koreans not as the integration of different identities but as the southern conquest and assimilation of the north - in short, as winning the war.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

316

Publisher

Palgrave Macmillan

Published Date

ISBN 10

0312210914

ISBN 13

9780312210915

Book's by Roy Richard Grinker

Unstrange Minds

Unstrange Minds

Nobody's Normal: How Culture Created the Stigma of Mental Illness

Nobody's Normal: How Culture Created the Stigma of Mental Illness

In the Arms of Africa

In the Arms of Africa

Nobody's Normal: How Culture Created the Stigma of Mental Illness

Nobody's Normal: How Culture Created the Stigma of Mental Illness

Houses in the Rainforest

Houses in the Rainforest

Unstrange Minds

Unstrange Minds

Korea and Its Futures

Korea and Its Futures

Houses in the Rain Forest

Houses in the Rain Forest

Houses in the Rainforest

Houses in the Rainforest

Korea and its Futures

Korea and its Futures

Username

Password

Username

Password

Password again

Birthday

Email