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Michael Goddard

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 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 practice of transcultural psychiatry with Kakoli interpre… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-0-85745-094-4
  • EAN: 9780857450944
  • Produktnummer: 23284515
  • Verlag: Ingram Publishers Services
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
  • Seitenangabe: 200 S.
  • Masse: H23.5 cm x B15.7 cm x D1.5 cm 439 g
  • Reihenbandnummer: 06
  • Gewicht: 439

Über den Autor


Michael Goddard is currently a Research Fellow in the Department of Anthropology, Macquarie University, Australia. He is the author of The Unseen City (2005) and Substantial Justice (2009).

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