This book is about a new theory of suicide as cultural mimesis, or as an idea that is internalized from culture. Written as part of a new, critical focus in suicidology, this volume moves away from the dominant, strictly scientific understanding of suicide as the result of a mental disorder, and towards positioning suicide as an anthropologically salient, community-driven phenomenon. Written by a leading researcher in the field, this volume presents a conception of suicide as culturally scripted, and it demonstrates how suicide becomes a cultural idiom of distress that for some can become a normative option.
Produkteigenschaften
- Artikelnummer: 9780367026592
- Medium: Buch
- ISBN: 978-0-367-02659-2
- Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Erscheinungstermin: 04.06.2019
- Sprache(n): Englisch
- Auflage: 1. Auflage 2019
- Serie: Researching Social Psychology
- Produktform: Gebunden
- Gewicht: 353 g
- Seiten: 144
- Format (B x H): 152 x 229 mm
- Ausgabetyp: Kein, Unbekannt