Out of Place : Madness in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea.

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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 an...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Goddard, Michael (Michael Bruce)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Berghahn Books, Inc., 2011.
Colección:Social Identities, vol. 6.
Temas:
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.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > People with Disabilities.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
Ethnopsychology
Psychiatry, Transcultural
Social conditions
Western Highlands Province (Papua New Guinea) > Social conditions.
Papua New Guinea > Western Highlands Province
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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