Uncultural behavior : an anthropological investigation of suicide in the southern Philippines /
Author / Creator: | Macdonald, Charles J-H |
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Imprint: | Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press, c2007. |
Description: | xiii, 307 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 23 cm. |
Language: | English |
Series: | Monographs of the Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University, English-language series ; no. 21 Monographs of the Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University ; 21. |
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Format: | Print Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6158533 |
Summary: | Until recently the people of Kulbi-Kenipaqan lived on the fringes of the modern world following traditional customs and beliefs, practicing shifting agriculture, and leading an outwardly peaceful existence in a remote corner of Palawan island. Yet this small community, basically indistinguishable in society and culture from its immediate neighbors to the north, has one of the highest rates of suicide in the world. Why would the comparatively happy and well-off inhabitants of Kulbi fall victim to despair? Uncultural Behavior investigates the mystery of self-inflicted death among this nonviolent and orderly people in the Southern Philippines. |
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Physical Description: | xiii, 307 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 23 cm. |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 289-297) and index. |
ISBN: | 0824830601 0824831039 |