Out of Place: Madness in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea

by Michael Goddard

The Kakoli of the Western Highlands of Papua New Guinea (PNG), the focus of this study, did not traditionally have a concept of mental illness. They classified madness according to social behaviour, not mental pathology. Moreover, their conception of the person did not recognise the same physical and mental categories that inform Western medical science, and psychiatry in particular was not officially introduced to PNG until the late 1950s. Its...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0075L38RY
• ISBN13: 9780857450944
• Release Date: April 2011
• Publisher: Berghahn Books
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 9.1"