Uncultural Behavior An Anthropological Investigation of Suicide in the Southern Philippines

Name: Uncultural Behavior An Anthropological Investigation of Suicide in the Southern Philippines
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ISBN: 9780824831035

ISBN-10: 0824831039

ISBN-13: 9780824831035

Edition: 2007

Authors: Charles J-H Macdonald

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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. To make sense of such a phenomenon, Charles…

Book details

List price: $31.00
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Publication date: 10/31/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.188
Language: English