ISBN:
9780857450944
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (xiv, 173 p)
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Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Series Statement:
Social identities v. 6
Series Statement:
Social Identities Ser v.6
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Out of Place : Madness in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea
DDC:
305.9/0840899912
Keywords:
Ethnopsychology
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Papuans Mental health
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Papuans Psychology
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Psychiatry, Transcultural
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Papuans Social conditions
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Ethnopsychology ; Papua New Guinea ; Western Highlands Province
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Papuans ; Mental health ; Papua New Guinea ; Western Highlands Province
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Papuans ; Papua New Guinea ; Western Highlands Province ; Psychology
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Papuans ; Papua New Guinea ; Western Highlands Province ; Social conditions
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Psychiatry, Transcultural ; Papua New Guinea ; Western Highlands Province
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Western Highlands Province (Papua New Guinea) ; Social conditions
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Electronic books
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Western Highlands Province (Papua New Guinea) Social conditions
Abstract:
The Kakoli of the Western Highlands of Papua New Guinea (PNG), the focus of this study, did not traditionally have a concept of mental illness. They classified madness according to social behaviour, not mental pathology. Moreover, their conception of the person did not recognise the same physical and mental categories that inform Western medical science, and psychiatry in particular was not officially introduced to PNG until the late 1950s. Its practitioners claimed that it could adequately accommodate the cultural variation among Melanesian societies. This book compares the intent and practic
Description / Table of Contents:
Out of Place; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Chapter 1 - The Development of Psychiatry in Papua New Guinea; Chapter 2 - Psychiatric Theory and Practice in Papua New Guinea; Chapter 3 - Madness and the Ambivalent Use of Psychiatry in the Kaugel Valley; Chapter 4 - Affliction and Madness; Chapter 5 - The Social Construction of Madness: Lopa's Season; Chapter 6 - The Social Construction of Madness: The Mad Giant; Conclusion: In Anticipation of a Kakoli Ethnopsychiatry; Appendix A: Orthography; Appendix B: Glossary of Umbu Ungu Terms; References; Index
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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