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Nancy Scheper-Hughes - Saints, Scholars, and Schizophrenics, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 2001

Saints, Scholars, and Schizophrenics

Mental Illness in Rural Ireland, Twentieth Anniversary Edition, Updated and Expanded

Av Nancy Scheper-Hughes

Del i serien University of California Press

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TWENTIETH ANNIVERSARY EDITION, UPDATED AND EXPANDED When Saints, Scholars, and Schizophrenics was published twenty years ago, it became an instant classic--a beautifully written study tracing the social disintegration of "Ballybran," a small village on the Dingle Peninsula in Ireland. In this richly detailed and sympathetic book, Nancy Scheper-Hughes explores the symptoms of the community's decline: emigration, malaise, unwanted celibacy, damaging patterns of childrearing, fear of intimacy, suicide, and schizophrenia. Following a recent return to "Ballybran," Scheper-Hughes reflects in a new preface and epilogue on the well-being of the community and on her attempts to reconcile her responsibility to honest ethnography with respect for the people who shared their homes and their secrets with her.
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Nancy Scheper-Hughes is Professor in the Department of Anthropology and Director of the doctoral program in Medical Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley. Her many publications include two books published by California, the award-winning Death without Weeping (1992) and Small Wars (1998).

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"This first-hand study of social conditions in the rural west, the most Irish part of Ireland, shows us a melancholy people, almost beyond desperation, isolated by vast social and economic changes. And if Scheper-Hughes started as an observer she ended up as a keener, lamenting a land which had lost its soul. . . . An important book."

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