TY - BOOK ID - 134740055 TI - Out of place : madness in the highlands of Papua New Guinea PY - 2011 SN - 0857450956 PB - New York : Berghahn Books, DB - UniCat KW - Papuans KW - Psychiatry, Transcultural KW - Ethnopsychology KW - Psychology. KW - Mental health KW - Social conditions. KW - Western Highlands Province (Papua New Guinea) UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:134740055 AB - The Kakoli of the Western Highlands of Papua New Guinea (PNG), the focus of this study, did not traditionally have a concept of mental illness. They classified madness according to social behaviour, not mental pathology. Moreover, their conception of the person did not recognise the same physical and mental categories that inform Western medical science, and psychiatry in particular was not officially introduced to PNG until the late 1950s. Its practitioners claimed that it could adequately accommodate the cultural variation among Melanesian societies. ER -