Out of place : madness in the highlands of Papua New Guinea / / Michael Goddard
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| Autore: |
Goddard Michael (Michael Bruce)
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| Titolo: |
Out of place : madness in the highlands of Papua New Guinea / / Michael Goddard
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| Pubblicazione: | New York : , : Berghahn Books, , 2011 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (187 pages) |
| Disciplina: | 305.9/0840899912 |
| 305.90840899912 | |
| Soggetto topico: | 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 | |
| Soggetto geografico: | Western Highlands Province (Papua New Guinea) Social conditions |
| 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Out of place |
| ISBN: | 0-85745-095-6 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910823725103321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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