Uncultural behavior : an anthropological investigation of suicide in the southern Philippines /

Uncultural behavior : an anthropological investigation of suicide in the southern Philippines /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Macdonald, Charles J-H
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.
Subject:	Palawan (Philippine people) -- Suicidal behavior. Palawan (Philippine people) -- Psychology. Palawan (Philippine people) -- Social conditions. Suicide -- Philippines. Ethnopsychology -- Philippines. Ethnopsychology. Religion. Social conditions. Suicide -- Anthropological aspects. Philippines -- Religion. Philippines -- Social conditions. Philippines.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6158533

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ISBN:	0824830601 (hardcover : alk. paper) 0824831039 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (p. 289-297) and index.
Standard no.:	9780824830601 9780824831035

Table of Contents:

Pt. 1. Palawan culture and society
1. The Kulbi-Kenipaqan River Basin and its people
2. Material culture and the symbolic structure of everyday life
3. Social organization
4. The spiritual world of the Kulbi people
5. Personhood, emotions, and moral values
Pt. 2. Suicide
6. Sumling's death
7. Suicide : case studies
8. Profiles in suicide
9. The anthropological study of suicide
10. Explaining suicide : concluding remarks.