Nancy Scheper-Hughes' classic ethnographic study of schizophrenia in western Ireland.
Nancy Scheper-Hughes is Professor and Chair of the Department of Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley.
List of Illustrations
ix
List of Tables
xi
Preface to the Y2000 Edition
xiii
Preface to the 1982 Paperback Edition
xv
Acknowledgments
xxiii
Prologue to the Original 1977 Edition
xxvii
Prollogue Writing Ireland
2
(56)
Introduction
58
(18)
Mental Illuness
Irish Culture
In Space and in Time
76
(18)
The People Left Behind
94
(40)
Saints, Scholars, and Schizophrenics
134
(38)
Brothers, Sisters, and Other Lovers: Marriage, Celibacy, and Relations Between the Sexes
172
(50)
Problems in Rural Irish Socialization
222
(40)
``Breeding Breaks Out in the Eye of the Cat'': Sex Roles, Birth, Order, and the Irish Double Bind
262
(34)
CONCLUDING OBSERVATIONS Toward a Responsive Human Community
296
(12)
EPILOGUE Crediting An Clochan
308
(37)
APPENDICES
A. TAT Card Descriptions and Sample Picture
329
(2)
B. Draw-a-Person Test Responses
331
(1)
C. TAT Responses: ``Jimmy Hennesy''
332
(3)
D. Tables
335
(10)
Notes
345
(16)
Glossary of Irish Terms and Place Names
361
(2)
Bibliography
363
(20)
Index
383
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