Linda C. Garro
Anthropology
316A Haines Hall, Campus 155303
Phone: 310.206.6249
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Research:
My interests include medical and cognitive anthropology. As a faculty fellow at CELF, I am working to develop an integrated perspective on health-related activities within middle-class dual-career family life by attending to the processes, social supports (social networks), and artifacts relied upon by family members to promote the health and well-being of those in the family. For example, how do family members recognize, respond to and manage ill health? What do family members do to promote wellbeing in daily family life?

Selected Publications:

Garro, L.C. (In press) Cultural, Social and Self Processes in Narrating Troubling Experiences. To appear in Narrative, Self and Social Practice. C. Mattingly and U. Jensen (eds.) University of Aarhus Press.

Garro, L.C. (Forth coming) Structured Interview Methods in Anthropological Research. Paper prepared for volume resulting from National Science Foundation's Workshop on Interdisciplinary Standards for Systematic Qualitative Research, M. Lamont (ed.)

Lakes, K., Lopez, S., and Garro, L.C. (2006) Cultural Competence and Psychotherapy: Applying Anthropologically Informed Conceptions of Culture. Psychotherapy, 43: 380-396.

Garro, L.C. (2005) The Unjust World Revisited: What Should Health Providers and Researchers Care About? Communication and Medicine, 2: 195-200.

Garro, L.C. (2005) "Effort After Meaning" in Everyday Life. In A Companion to Psychological Anthropology: Modernity and Psychocultural Change. Conerly Casey and Robert B. Edgerton (eds.), pp. 48-71, Malden, MA & Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishing.

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