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Saints, scholars, and schizophrenics : mental illness in rural Ireland / Nancy Scheper-Hughes.

By: Scheper-Hughes, Nancy.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: Berkeley : University of California Press, 2001Edition: [20th anniversary ed., rev. and expanded].Description: xxviii, 389 p. : ill ; 23 cm.ISBN: 0520224809; 9780520224803.Subject(s): Mental illness -- Ireland -- Clochan | National characteristics, Irish | Ethnopsychology -- Ireland | Mental Disorders -- Ireland | Rural health -- Ireland | Schizophrenia -- Ireland | Social Environment -- Ireland | Illness & addiction: social aspects | Ireland | Anthropology | Clochan (Ireland) -- Social life and customs -- 20th century | Clochán (Kerry, Ireland) -- Social life and customs -- 20th centuryDDC classification: 362.2 SCH
Contents:
Writing Ireland -- Mental illness and Irish culture -- In space and in time -- The people left behind -- Saints, scholars and schizophrenics -- Brothers, sisters, and other lovers: marriage, celibacy, and relations between the sexes -- Problems in rural Irish socialization -- "Breeding breaks out in the eye of the cat": sex roles, birth order, and the Irish double bind -- Toward a responsive human community -- Crediting an clochán.
Review: "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."--BOOK JACKET.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

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.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Writing Ireland -- Mental illness and Irish culture -- In space and in time -- The people left behind -- Saints, scholars and schizophrenics -- Brothers, sisters, and other lovers: marriage, celibacy, and relations between the sexes -- Problems in rural Irish socialization -- "Breeding breaks out in the eye of the cat": sex roles, birth order, and the Irish double bind -- Toward a responsive human community -- Crediting an clochán.

"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."--BOOK JACKET.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

  • List of Illustrations (p. ix)
  • List of Tables (p. xi)
  • Preface to the Y2000 Edition (p. xiii)
  • Preface to the 1982 Paperback Edition (p. xv)
  • Acknowledgments (p. xxiii)
  • Prologue to the Original 1977 Edition (p. xxvii)
  • Prologue: Writing Ireland (p. 2)
  • Introduction: Mentall Illness and Irish Culture (p. 58)
  • Chapter 1 In Space and in Time (p. 76)
  • Chapter 2 The People Left Behind (p. 94)
  • Chapter 3 Saints, Scholars, and Schizophrenics (p. 134)
  • Chapter 4 Brothers, Sisters, and Other Lovers: Marriage, Celibacy, and Relations Between the Sexes (p. 172)
  • Chapter 5 Problems in Rural Irish Socialization (p. 222)
  • Chapter 6 "Breeding Breaks Out in the Eye of the Cat": Sex Roles, Birth Order, and the Irish Double Bind (p. 262)
  • Concluding Observations: Toward a Responsive Human Community (p. 296)
  • Epilogue: Crediting An Clochan (p. 308)
  • Appendices
  • A. TAT Card Descriptions and Sample Picture (p. 329)
  • B. Draw-a-Person Test Responses (p. 331)
  • C. TAT Responses: "Jimmy Hennesy" (p. 332)
  • D. Tables (p. 335)
  • Notes (p. 345)
  • Glossary of Irish Terms and Place Names (p. 361)
  • Bibliography (p. 363)
  • Index (p. 383)

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Nancy Scheper-Hughes is Professor and Chair of the Department of Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley.