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Record Nr.

UNINA9910457022103321

Autore

Goddard Michael (Michael Bruce)

Titolo

Out of place [[electronic resource] ] : madness in the highlands of Papua New Guinea / / Michael Goddard

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Berghahn Books, c2011

ISBN

0-85745-095-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (187 p.)

Collana

Social identities ; ; v. 6

Disciplina

305.9/0840899912

Soggetti

Papuans - Papua New Guinea - Western Highlands Province - Psychology

Papuans - Mental health - Papua New Guinea - Western Highlands Province

Papuans - Papua New Guinea - Western Highlands Province - Social conditions

Psychiatry, Transcultural - Papua New Guinea - Western Highlands Province

Ethnopsychology - Papua New Guinea - Western Highlands Province

Electronic books.

Western Highlands Province (Papua New Guinea) Social conditions

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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