Ethan Watters’s Followers (58)

Add New
Videos

Add a comment

Ethan Watters

edit data

Ethan Watters is a free lance journalist whose work has appeared in the New York Times Magazine, Discover, Men's Journal, Spin, Details, and Wired. A frequent contributor to NPR, Watters' work appeared in the 2007 and 2008 Best American Science and Nature Writing. He co-founded the San Francisco Writers Grotto, a work space for local artists. He lives in San Francisco with his wife and children.
...more

Combine Editions
Ethan Watters’s books

Average rating: 4.04 · 4,985 ratings · 595 reviews · 5 distinct works • Similar authors

	Crazy Like Us: The Globalization of the American Psyche 4.09 avg rating — 4,498 ratings — published 2009 — 28 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
	Urban Tribes: Are Friends the New Family? 3.48 avg rating — 404 ratings — published 2003 — 10 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
	Making Monsters: False Memories, Psychotherapy, And Sexual Hysteria by Richard Ofshe, Ethan Watters 4.13 avg rating — 69 ratings — published 1994 — 8 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
	Therapy's Delusions: The Myth of the Unconscious and the Exploitation of Today's Walking Worried by Ethan Watters, Richard Ofshe 3.54 avg rating — 24 ratings — published 1999 — 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
	Urban Tribes: A Generation Redefines Friendship, Family, and Commitment by Ethan Watters (2003-10-08) 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

More books by Ethan Watters…

Quotes by Ethan Watters (?)

“Because we cannot see the roads we have not taken, we become, by defaults, advocates for the path our life is on.”
― Ethan Watters, Urban Tribes: Are Friends the New Family?

11 likes

“Because our culture so highly values an illusion of self-control and control of circumstance, we become abject when contemplating mentation that seems more changeable, less restrained and less controllable, more open to outside influence, than we imagine our own to be. — Judi McGruder”
― Ethan Watters, Crazy Like Us: The Globalization of the American Psyche

6 likes

“Even anthropologists, who diligently train themselves to be nonjudgmental observers of cultural differences, have trouble when it comes to recognizing and allowing for cultural differences in emotions. Because our emotions come into our consciousness unbidden and often surprise us with their intensity, we often assume that they are not influenced by cultural cues or social scripts. But with careful study, anthropologists have learned that emotions are not like muscle reflexes; rather, they are communications with deep and sometimes obscure meanings. Cultures differ not only in their response to specific events... but also in more global ways.”
― Ethan Watters, Crazy Like Us: The Globalization of the American Psyche

3 likes

See all Ethan Watters's quotes »

Topics Mentioning This Author

topics	posts	views	last activity
The Seasonal Read...: Summer Challenge 2012: Completed Tasks - DO NOT DELETE ANY POSTS IN THIS TOPIC	2637	939	Aug 31, 2012 09:02PM
Never too Late to...: European Classic Authors	38	86	Oct 05, 2020 09:14AM

Is this you? Let us know. If not, help out and invite Ethan to Goodreads.

Ethan Watters’s Followers (58)

Add NewVideos

Ethan Watters

Combine EditionsEthan Watters’s books

Topics Mentioning This Author

Add New
Videos

Combine Editions
Ethan Watters’s books