Saints, Scholars, and Schizophrenics by Parragon Books

Saints, Scholars, and Schizophrenics by Parragon Books

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Saints, Scholars, and Schizophrenics by Parragon Books

TWENTIETH ANIVERSARY 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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ISBN 13 9780520047860
ISBN 10 0520047869
Title Saints, Scholars, and Schizophrenics
Author Parragon Books
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher University of California Press
Year published 1983-01-18
Number of pages 259
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
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