Out of Place : Madness in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea.
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 an...
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| Online Access: | Electronic book from JSTOR |
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Published: | New York : Berghahn Books, Inc., 2011. |
| Series: | Social Identities, vol. 6.
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