Out of Place
Madness in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea
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…
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- ISBN: 978-0-85745-095-1
- EAN: 9780857450951
- Produktnummer: 22575877
- Verlag: Berghahn Books
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
- Seitenangabe: 200 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 1'100 KB
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