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Saints, scholars, and schizophrenics : mental illness in rural Ireland / Nancy Scheper-Hughes.
Van Pelt Library RC450.I732 C637 2001
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LIBRA RC450.I732 C637 2001
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Scheper-Hughes, Nancy.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mental illness--Ireland--Clochan.
- Mental illness.
- Clochan (Ireland)--Social life and customs--20th century.
- Clochan (Ireland).
- National characteristics, Irish.
- Physical Description:
- xxviii, 389 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Edition:
- Twentieth anniversary edition, updated and expanded.
- Place of Publication:
- Berkeley : University of California Press, [2001]
- Summary:
- 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 child rearing, fear of intimacy, suicide, and schizophrenia. Following a recent return to "Ballybran," Scheper-Hughes reflects in a lengthy 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.
- Contents:
- Prologue: Writing Ireland 2
- Introduction: Mentall Illness and Irish Culture 58
- Chapter 1 In Space and in Time 76
- Chapter 2 The People Left Behind 94
- Chapter 3 Saints, Scholars, and Schizophrenics 134
- Chapter 4 Brothers, Sisters, and Other Lovers: Marriage, Celibacy, and Relations Between the Sexes 172
- Chapter 5 Problems in Rural Irish Socialization 222
- Chapter 6 "Breeding Breaks Out in the Eye of the Cat": Sex Roles, Birth Order, and the Irish Double Bind 262
- Concluding Observations: Toward a Responsive Human Community 296
- Epilogue: Crediting An Clochan 308
- A. TAT Card Descriptions and Sample Picture 329
- B. Draw-a-Person Test Responses 331
- C. TAT Responses: "Jimmy Hennesy" 332.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 363-382) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0520224809
- OCLC:
- 44860790
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