| Saints, Scholars, and Schizophrenics: Mental Illness in Rural Ireland, Twentieth Anniversary Edition, Updated and Expanded Contributor(s): Scheper-Hughes, Nancy (Author) |
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ISBN: 0520224809 ISBN-13: 9780520224803 Publisher: University of California Press OUR PRICE: $31.63 Product Type: Paperback Published: January 2001 Annotation: ""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 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Anthropology - Cultural & Social - Psychology | Psychopathology - General |
| Dewey: 362.196 |
| LCCN: 00060379 |
| Physical Information: 0.93" H x 6" W x 9" (1.35 lbs) 417 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Ireland - Ethnic Orientation - Irish |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |