Patients and Agents : : Mental Illness, Modernity and Islam in Sylhet, Bangladesh /

Patients and Agents : : Mental Illness, Modernity and Islam in Sylhet, Bangladesh / / Alyson Callan.

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Sylhet, the area of Bangladesh most closely associated with overseas migration, has seen an increase in remittances sent home from abroad, introducing new inequalities.  Social change has also been mediated by the global forces of Western biomedicine and orthodox Islam.  This book examines the effec...

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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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Callan, Alyson,
Place / Publishing House:New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2012]
©2012
Year of Publication:2012
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (252 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • Acknowledgements
  • List of Key Informants
  • Introduction
  • CHAPTER 1 Sylhet and Social Change
  • CHAPTER 2 An Outline Ethnopsychiatry of Sylhet
  • CHAPTER 3 The Relationship Between Madness and Religiosity
  • CHAPTER 4 Sorcery: ‘What else do we Bengalis do?’
  • CHAPTER 5 Marriage, Madness and Resistance
  • CHAPTER 6 Spirit Possession, Personal Autonomy and the Law of Allah
  • CHAPTER 7 Muslim Patients, Hindu Healers
  • CHAPTER 8 Female Saints
  • Conclusion
  • Glossary
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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