Saints, Scholars, and Schizophrenics: Mental Illness in Rural Ireland, Twentieth Anniversary Edition, Updated and Expanded / Edition 1

by Nancy Scheper-Hughes

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780520224803
Publisher:	University of California Press
Publication date:	01/03/2001
Edition description:	First Edition
Pages:	417
Sales rank:	915,685
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Nancy Scheper-Hughes is Professor in the Department of Anthropology and Director of the doctoral program in Medical Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley. Her many publications include two books published by California, the award-winning Death without Weeping (1992) and Small Wars (1998).

Table of Contents

	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
	Prologue: Writing Ireland	2
	Introduction: Mentall Illness and Irish Culture	58
Chapter 1	In Space and in Time	76
Chapter 2	The People Left Behind	94
Chapter 3	Saints, Scholars, and Schizophrenics	134
Chapter 4	Brothers, Sisters, and Other Lovers: Marriage, Celibacy, and Relations Between the Sexes	172
Chapter 5	Problems in Rural Irish Socialization	222
Chapter 6	"Breeding Breaks Out in the Eye of the Cat": Sex Roles, Birth Order, and the Irish Double Bind	262
	Concluding Observations: Toward a Responsive Human Community	296
	Epilogue: Crediting An Clochan	308
	Appendices
A.	TAT Card Descriptions and Sample Picture	329
B.	Draw-a-Person Test Responses	331
C.	TAT Responses: "Jimmy Hennesy"	332
D.	Tables	335
	Notes	345
	Glossary of Irish Terms and Place Names	361
	Bibliography	363
	Index	383

Editorial Reviews

"This first-hand study of social conditions in the rural west, the most Irish part of Ireland, shows us a melancholy people, almost beyond desperation, isolated by vast social and economic changes. And if Scheper-Hughes started as an observer she ended up as a keener, lamenting a land which had lost its soul. . . . An important book."

Boston Globe

"Achingly beautiful in places [and] in firm command of an impressive array of evidence."

Medical Anthropology Quarterly

"[Scheper-Hughes] draws you after her, nodding in recognition, as she dissects and holds up to the light. She is a skillful pathologist of human nature and a strikingly good writer."

Irish Times

"[Scheper-Hughes's] prose is so clear that not only the non-specialist but the average reader can comprehend her arguments and understand the issues she raises."

Journal of Mind and Behavior