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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.

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• Full title: Saints, Scholars, and Schizophrenics
• Subtitle: Mental Illness in Rural Ireland, Twentieth Anniversary Edition, Updated and Expanded
• Author: Nancy Scheper-Hughes
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 417
• EAN: 9780520224803
• ISBN: 0520224809
• ID: 04088585
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Weight: 638 g
• Dimensions: 226 × 155 × 27 mm
• Date of publishing: 03. January 2001

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