Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: University of California Press
Date Published: 1983
ISBN-13:9780520047860ISBN:0520047869
Description: Good. No dust jacket as issued. Some fading on spine, bent corner on front cover. A few pencil dots in text. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 259 p. Audience: General/trade. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: University of California, Berkeley:
Date Published: (1982).
ISBN-13:9780520047860ISBN:0520047869
Description: charts & tables. Near Fine in stiff wraps. 8vo (8"x9"), softbound, 245pp. ISBN: 0520047869 Winner of the Margaret Mead Award, 1981. read more
Description: Good. Former Library book. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: University of California Press, Berkeley
Date Published: 1979
ISBN-13:9780520034440ISBN:0520034449
Description: Very Good in Good dust jacket. 0520034449. First printing. Previous owner's name on front free endpaper, else very good in a good (sun faded, shelf worn), price clipped dust jacket. read more
Binding: orig. wrappers
Publisher: Univ. of California Press, Berkeley
Date Published: 1984
Description: Textual illustrations. Rubbed. Corner bumped. Good. 21x24cm, xiv, 245 pp., PAPERBACK. Contents: Mental Illness and Irish Culture; In Space and in Time; The People Left Behind; Saints, Scholars, and Schizophrenics; Brothers, Sisters, and Other Lovers: Marriage, Celibacy, and Relations Between the Sexes; Problems in Rural Irish Socialization; "Breeding Breajs Out in the Eye of the Cat": Sex Roles, Birth Order, and Irish Double Bind; Toward a Responsive Human Community. read more
Binding: Oversize Cardboard
Publisher: University of California
Date Published: 1992
ISBN-13:9780520047860ISBN:0520047869
Description: Good. 8" x 9" xvi, 245 pp. Clean contents and end pages but for some yellow highlighting in prologue. Decorataive wraps have slight curling of front corners. "Brilliantly written and sympathetic study of the history of mental illness in rural Ireland", which, the World Health Organization noted, had the highest incidence of schizophrenia in the world after World War II. "This book will please and benefit not only cultural and social anthropologists, but folklorists, historians, psychologists, ... read more
Edition: First Paperback Edition
Binding: Pictorial Cover, paper, coated
Publisher: University Of California Press, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1982
ISBN-13:9780520047860ISBN:0520047869
Description: Good. 8"h X 8 3/4"w. 245 pgs including index; considerable amount of highlighting throughout text; cover scuffed with wear to edges & corners; read more
"I read this book for a Culture and Personality class during my undergrad at EMU. I remember liking it as it gave some substantial evidence to some social triggers to schizophrenia."
"A well-written ethnography is such a joy - and a rarity. I love this book, but be sure to read this edition. The new introduction is not to be missed. It describes her return to the Irish village she wrote about, and the - shall we say emphatic? - reaction of the villagers to her book. Gossipy, novelistic, and incredibly smart."
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