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

Scheper-Hughes Nancy
Heftet / 2001 / Engelsk

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ISBN
9780520224803
Publisert
2001-01-03
Utgiver
Vendor
University of California Press
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635 gr
Høyde
229 mm
Bredde
152 mm
Dybde
23 mm
Aldersnivå
G, 01
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Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet

Forfatter
Scheper-Hughes Nancy

Biographical note

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).

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

Scheper-Hughes Nancy
Heftet / 2001 / Engelsk
Scheper-Hughes Nancy
Heftet / 2001 / Engelsk
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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."

Boston Globe

"[Scheper-Hughes] draws you after her, nodding in recognition, as she dissects and holds up to the light. She is a skillful pathologist of human nature and a strikingly good writer."

Irish Times

"Achingly beautiful in places [and] in firm command of an impressive array of evidence."

Medical Anthropology Quarterly

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"[Scheper-Hughes's] prose is so clear that not only the non-specialist but the average reader can comprehend her arguments and understand the issues she raises."

Journal of Mind and Behavior

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.
Les mer
This study was first published in 1983. It traces the social disintegration of "Ballybran", a small village on the Dingle Peninsula in Ireland, exploring the symptoms of the communities decline: from emigration to schizophrenia. This edition contains a new preface and epilogue.
Les mer
"Saints, Scholars, and Schizophrenics, in its original form--now integrally reproduced in the new edition--is a most important seminal study of an Irish community."—Conor Cruise O'Brien
Winner of the Margaret Mead Award from the Society for Applied Anthropology in conjunction with the American Anthropological Association.

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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."

Boston Globe

"[Scheper-Hughes] draws you after her, nodding in recognition, as she dissects and holds up to the light. She is a skillful pathologist of human nature and a strikingly good writer."

Irish Times

"Achingly beautiful in places [and] in firm command of an impressive array of evidence."

Medical Anthropology Quarterly

Se alle

"[Scheper-Hughes's] prose is so clear that not only the non-specialist but the average reader can comprehend her arguments and understand the issues she raises."

Journal of Mind and Behavior

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.
Les mer
This study was first published in 1983. It traces the social disintegration of "Ballybran", a small village on the Dingle Peninsula in Ireland, exploring the symptoms of the communities decline: from emigration to schizophrenia. This edition contains a new preface and epilogue.
Les mer
"Saints, Scholars, and Schizophrenics, in its original form--now integrally reproduced in the new edition--is a most important seminal study of an Irish community."—Conor Cruise O'Brien
Winner of the Margaret Mead Award from the Society for Applied Anthropology in conjunction with the American Anthropological Association.

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780520224803
Publisert
2001-01-03
Utgiver
Vendor
University of California Press
Vekt
635 gr
Høyde
229 mm
Bredde
152 mm
Dybde
23 mm
Aldersnivå
G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet

Forfatter
Scheper-Hughes Nancy

Biographical note

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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