Mohave Ethnopsychiatry and Suicide: The Psychiatric Knowledge and the Psychic Disturbances of an Indian Tribe George Devereux

Mohave Ethnopsychiatry and Suicide: The Psychiatric Knowledge and the Psychic Disturbances of an Indian Tribe

Author	George Devereux
Publisher	Washington, D.C. : Government Printing Office, 1961
Edition	1
Weight	830 gram
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Keywords	Mohave, Mojave, ethnopsychiatrie, psychiatrie, psychoanalysis, suicide, zelfmoord, child psychiatry, kinderpsychiatrie, Indians, Native Americans, shaman, sjamaan, psychopathologie, Kroeber, Colorado, Arizona, Nevada
Booknumber	12705
Category's	Travel & Geography (North America) Travel & Geography (Ethnology & Antropology) Exact Sciences (Medicine) History & Archaeology (North America) History & Archaeology (Pre-Columbian)
8vo (15,5 x 23,5 cm). Pp. VI, 586. Orig. green cloth with gilt-lettered spine. Smithsonian Institution Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 175. The first monograph with a systematic study of the psychiatric theories and practices of a primitive tribe. This study has become a classic of cultural anthropology and ethno-psychoanalysis. With a section on suicide (200 pages) and an appendix on the function of alcohol, 23 b/w photographs on 10 plates and an extensive bibliography. Very good copy.
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