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

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

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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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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2000-2013
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Goddard, Michael,
Place / Publishing House:New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2011]
©2011
Year of Publication:2011
Language:English
Series:Social Identities ; 6
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Physical Description:1 online resource (200 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgements
  • Map
  • Introduction
  • 1. The Development of Psychiatry in Papua New Guinea
  • 2. Psychiatric Theory and Practice in Papua New Guinea
  • 3. Madness and the Ambivalent Use of Psychiatry in the Kaugel Valley
  • 4. Affliction and Madness
  • 5. The Social Construction of Madness: Lopa’s Season
  • 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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