Thomas J. Csordas

Dr. Thomas Csordas is a cultural and psychological anthropologist whose principal interests are in anthropological theory, religion and mental health, embodiment, language and culture, and cultural phenomenology. His research has been with Charismatic Catholics and Navajo Indians, on topics including therapeutic process, ritual language, imagery, the self, techniques of the body, and causal reasoning about illness.

Books, Monographs, Edited Volumes and Dissertation

2002 Csordas, T.J.

Body/Meaning/Healing. New York: Palgrave.

1997 Csordas, T.J.

Language, Charisma, and Creativity: The Ritual Life of a Religious Movement. Berkeley: University of California Press. Paperback Edition, New York: Palgrave, 2001.

1994 Csordas, T.J.

The Sacred Self: A Cultural Phenomenology of Charismatic Healing. Berkeley: University of California Press.

1994 Csordas, T.J.

Embodiment and Experience. London: Cambridge University Press.

1980 Csordas, T.J.

Building the Kingdom: The Creativity of Ritual Performance in Catholic Pentecostalism. Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Anthropology, Duke University.

Books

In Press. Csordas, T.J.

"The Body in Anthropology." In International Encyclopedia of Social and Behavioral Sciences.

In Press. Csordas, T.J.

"Review of Maureen Schwarz, Molded in the Image of Changing Woman: Navajo Views on the Human Body and Personhood." In Transcultural Psychiatry.

2001 Csordas, T.J.

"Notes for a Cybernetics of the Holy." In Papers in Honor of Roy A. Rappaport. Ellen Messer and Michael Lambek, (Eds.). Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. 227-243.

2000 Csordas, T.J.

"Computerized Cadavers: Shades of Representation and Being in Virtual Reality." In Biotechnology, Culture, and the Body. Paul Brodwin, (Ed.). Bloomington: Indiana University Press. 173-192.

2000 Storck, Michael, T.J. Csordas, and Milton E. Strauss.

"Depressive Illness and Navajo Healing." In Ritual Healing in Contemporary Navajo Society. Thomas J. Csordas, (Guest Editor). Theme issue of Medical Anthropology Quarterly 14:360-381.

2000 Csordas, T.J. (Guest Editor).

"Ritual Healing in Navajo Society." Theme issue of Medical Anthropology Quarterly 14:4.

1999 Csordas, T.J.

"The Body's Career in Anthropology." In Anthropological Theory Today. Henrietta Moore, (Ed.). Cambridge, UK: Polity Press. 172-205.

1999 Csordas, T.J.

"Embodiment and Cultural Phenomenology." In Perspectives on Embodiment. Gail Weiss and Honi Haber, (Eds.). New York: Routledge. 143-162.

1999 Lewton, Elizabeth and T.J. Csordas.

"I Have No Relatives: Navajo Narratives of Distress and Therapeutic Transformation." In Dine baa Hane bi Naaltsoos: Selected Papers from the Seventh through Tenth Navajo Studies Conferences. June-el Piper, (Ed.). Window Rock, AZ: Navajo Nation Preservation Department. 131-138.

1999 Csordas, T.J.

"Ritual Healing and the Politics of Identity in Contemporary Navajo Society." In American Ethnologist 26:3-23.

1998 Csordas, T.J. and Elizabeth Lewton.

"Practice, Performance, and Experience in Ritual Healing." In Transcultural Psychiatry 35:435-512.

1997 Kiyaani, Mike and T.J. Csordas.

"On the Peyote Road." In Natural History 3/97:48-49.

1997* Csordas, T.J. and Janis H. Jenkins.

"From the Editors." In Ethos: Journal of the Society of Psychological Anthropology 25:2-6.

1997 Csordas, T.J.

"Prophecy and the Performance of Metaphor." In American Anthropologist 99:250-262.

1996 Csordas, T.J.

"Imaginal Performance and Memory in Ritual Healing." In The Performance of Healing. Carol Laderman and Marina Roseman, (Eds.). London: Routledge. 91-114.

1996 Csordas, T.J.

"A Handmaid's Tale: The Rhetoric of Personhood in American and Japanese Healing of Abortions." In Gender and Health: An International Perspective. Carolyn Sargent and Caroline Brettell, (Eds.). Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall. 227-241.

1996 Csordas, T.J. and A. Kleinman.

"The Therapeutic Process." In Medical Anthropology: A Handbook of Theory and Method. Carolyn Sargent and Thomas Johnson, (Eds.). Second Edition. New York: Greenwood Press. 3-21.

1995 Csordas, T.J.

"Oxymorons and Short-Circuits in the Re-Enchantment of the World: The Case of the Catholic Charismatic Renewal." Special issue of Etnofoor on The Enchanted World 8:5-26.

1995 Csordas, T.J.

"Medical Anthropology as Cultural Anthropology." Review article on Byron Good's Medicine, Rationality, and Experience and also Knowledge, Power, and Practice. Shirley Lindenbaum and Margaret Lock, (Eds.). In American Anthropologist 97:788-791.

1994 Csordas, T.J. and J. Garrity.

"Co-Utilization of Biomedicine and Religious Healing: A Navajo Case Study." In Yearbook of Cross-Cultural Medicine and Psychotherapy, 1992. Walter Andritzky (Ed.). Berlin: Verlag fur Wissenschaft und Bildung. 241-252.

1994 Csordas, T.J. (Ed.).

"The Body as Representation and Being in the World." In Embodiment and Experience: The Existential Ground of Culture and Self. London: Cambridge University Press. 1-23.

1994 Csordas, T.J. (Ed.).

"Words from the Holy People: A Case Study in Navajo Cultural Phenomenology." In Embodiment and Experience: The Existential Ground of Culture and Self. London: Cambridge University Press. 269-289.

1994 Csordas, T.J. (Ed.).

"Self and Person." In Handbook of Psychological Anthropology. New York: Greenwood Press. 331-350.

1993 Csordas, T.J.

"Somatic Modes of Attention." In Cultural Anthropology 8:135-156.

1992 Csordas, T.J.

"Anthropology's Integrity as a Research Discipline." In Medical Anthropology Quarterly 6:394-400.

1992 Csordas, T.J.

"The Affliction of Martin: Religious, Clinical, and Phenomenological Meaning in a Case of Demonic Oppression." In Ethnopsychiatry: the Cultural Construction of Professional and Folk Psychiatries. Atwood Gaines, (Ed.). Albany: State University of New York Press. 125-170.

1992 Csordas, T.J.

"Religion and the World System: The Pentecostal Ethic and the Spirit of Monopoly Capital." In Dialectical Anthropology 17:24-42.

1992 Csordas, T.J. and J. Clark.

"Ends of the Line: Diversity among Chronic Pain Centers." In Social Science and Medicine 4:383-393.

1990 Csordas, T.J. and A. Kleinman.

"The Therapeutic Process." In Medical Anthropology: A Handbook of Theory and Method. Atwood Gaines, (Ed.). Greenwood Press. 11-25.

1990 Csordas, T.J.

"The Psychotherapy Analogy and Charismatic Healing." In Psychotherapy 27:79-90.

1990 Csordas, T.J.

"Embodiment as a Paradigm for Anthropology." (Winner of 1988 Stirling Award paper for contributions in Psychological Anthropology). In Ethos 18:5-47.

1989 Csordas, T.J.

"The Sore That Does Not Heal: Cause and Concept in the Navajo Experience of Cancer." In Journal of Anthropological Research 45:457-485.

1989 Lind, Stuart, Mary-Jo Good, Steven Seidel, T.J. Csordas, and Byron Good.

"Telling the Diagnosis of Cancer." In Journal of Clinical Oncology 7:583-589.

1988 Csordas, T.J.

"Elements of Charismatic Persuasion and Healing." In Medical Anthropology Quarterly 2:121-142.

1988 Csordas, T.J.

"The Conceptual Status of Hegemony and Critique in Medical Anthropology." In Medical Anthropology Quarterly 2: 416-421.

1987 Csordas, T.J.

"Health and the Holy in African and Afro-American Spirit Possession." In Social Science and Medicine 24: 1-11.

1987 Csordas, T.J.

"Genre, Motive, and Metaphor: Conditions for Creativity in Ritual Language." In Cultural Anthropology 2: 445-469.

1985 Csordas, T.J.

"Medical and Sacred Realities: Between Comparative Religion and Transcultural Psychiatry." In Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry 9:103-116.

1983 Csordas, T.J.

"The Rhetoric of Transformation in Ritual Healing." In Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry 7:333-375.

1980 Csordas, T.J.

"Catholic Pentecostalism: A New Word in the New World." In Perspectives on Pentecostalism: Case Studies from the Caribbean and Latin America. S.D. Glazier, (Ed.). Washington: University Press of America. 143-175.