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Roy Richard Grinker

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The United States

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Anthropology

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B. 1961

Professor of Anthropology, International Affairs, and Human Sciences at The George Washington University.

Grinker is an authority on North and South Korean relations. As part of his PhD research, he spent two years living with the Lese farmers and the Efé pygmies in the northeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo as a Fulbright scholar. He has also conducted epidemiological research on autism in Korea.

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Average rating: 3.99 · 1,961 ratings · 256 reviews · 9 distinct works • Similar authors

	Nobody's Normal: How Culture Created the Stigma of Mental Illness 4.02 avg rating — 1,078 ratings — published 2021 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Unstrange Minds: Remapping the World of Autism 3.94 avg rating — 776 ratings — published 2007 — 17 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	In the Arms of Africa: The Life of Colin Turnbull 3.98 avg rating — 56 ratings — published 2000 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Perspectives on Africa: A Reader in Culture, History and Representation by Roy Richard Grinker, Stephen C. Lubkemann (Editor), Christopher B. Steiner (Editor) 4.39 avg rating — 23 ratings — published 1991 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Isabel's World: Autism and the Making of a Modern Epidemic 4.17 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 2009 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Houses in the Rainforest: Ethnicity and Inequality Among Farmers and Foragers in Central Africa 3.40 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 1994 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Korea and its Futures: Unification and the Unfinished War 3.67 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 1998 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Companion to the Anthropology of Africa by Roy Richard Grinker, Stephen C. Lubkemann, Christopher Steiner 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Road Out of Bedlam: A History of the Stigma of Mental Illness 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Stigma does not derive from ignorance or lack of knowledge, but rather from the conception of mental illness as the sign of the idle, a personality incapable of achieving the ideal: producing for oneself and the economy.”
― Roy Richard Grinker, Nobody's Normal: How Culture Created the Stigma of Mental Illness

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“. . . symptoms of mental illnesses are inevitably local.”
― Roy Richard Grinker, Nobody's Normal: How Culture Created the Stigma of Mental Illness

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“Stigma isn’t in our biology; it’s in our culture. It is a process we learn from within our communities, and we can change what we teach. But only if we know the history of stigma can we target the social forces that created it in the first place, strengthen those that reduce stigma, and say “enough” to the many barriers that keep so many people from getting care.”
― Roy Richard Grinker, Nobody's Normal: How Culture Created the Stigma of Mental Illness

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