[Commlist] cfp culture-bound syndromes in popular culture

Call for Chapters CULTURE-BOUND SYNDROMES IN POPULAR CULTURE (Routledge)

You are invited to submit an abstract for the upcoming edited collection 
Culture-bound syndromes in Popular Culture. The edited collection volume 
aims to provide in-depth and analytical insight into the representations 
of cultural imagery and narratives of various culture-bound syndromes 
through the lens of global and national popular culture, covering 
movies, television, visual arts, fashion, festivals, popular music, and 
graphic novels.

What does a culture-bound syndrome mean? The concept has come to define 
a pattern of symptoms (mental, physical, and relational) experienced 
only by members of a specific cultural group and recognized as a 
disorder by members of those groups.

“Culture-bound Syndromes in Popular Culture” takes its readers on a 
journey across (popular) cultures and introduces them to an entirely new 
subfield of studies, at the conjunction of medical anthropology and 
popular culture, focusing on folk illnesses.

Thus, this book covers a broad range of case studies, subjects, texts, 
and cultural practices that lie at the intersection of folk illnesses 
and cultural studies and include national, transnational, and 
international media representations, with an accent on the reception and 
interpretation of the phenomenon from the perspective of its original space.

We warmly invite established and emerging scholars specializing in all 
areas of media and cultural studies, anthropology, sociology, 
social/cultural geography, and other relevant research fields to propose 
a book chapter on an individual culture-bound syndrome and its 
representations in popular culture. Both single and multiple-authored 
works will be considered. All work should be original and previously 
unpublished.

We are also very interested in hearing open proposals for possible 
chapters about other cultural syndromes if the Table of Contents strikes 
you as improvable in any way.

We are looking especially for cultural syndromes from EUROPE, NATIVE 
AMERICA, ASIA, AND INDIGENOUS CULTURES. Other perspectives but film 
studies are also highly encouraged (literature, for instance).

Chapters might explore but are not limited to:

SECTION 1 East Asia and India

Zou huo ru mo (China)

Dhat syndrome (India)

Hikikomori (Japan) Already taken!

Taijin Kyofusho (Japan) Already taken!

Hwabyeong (South Korea)

Pa-leng (Taiwan)

SECTION 2 Southeast Asia

Lanti (Philippines)

Latah (Indonesia, Malaysia)

Amok (Malaysia)

Koro (Singapore)

SECTION 3 Latin America and Native American culture

Locura

Mal de pelea

Nervios

Susto

Saladera (Peruvian Amazon)

Windigo Psychosis (Native American)

SECTION 4 Africa and the Middle East

Zar (Israel, Ethiopia)

Ufufuyane, Saka (Kenya)

Voodoo death (Haiti, Africa, Australia)

Routledge has expressed keen interest in the volume for their Research 
in Cultural and Media Studies Series.

Key dates

Abstract submission deadline: 15 April 2022

Notification of acceptance: 30 April 2022

Full chapter submission (max 8000 words): 1 November 2022

Publication: January 2023

Please send in a working title, abstracts of max 500 words, and a brief 
biographical note of 150 words to:

(prof.irina.pelea /at/ gmail.com) <mailto:(prof.irina.pelea /at/ gmail.com)>

Please feel free to contact the volume’s editor (Irina Pelea) with any 
questions or queries. I look forward to receiving your abstracts.

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