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Cultural patterns in Trukese suicidearticle 1984 • Hezel, Francis X.
Chuuk • Oceania > Micronesia
This is a study of suicide among the Chuuk, based on data collected by the Micronesian Seminar, a church-sponsored research institute, and other public records. By interviewing relatives and friends of suicide victims, Hezel was able to corroborate a...Truk suicide epidemic and social changearticle 1987 • Hezel, Francis X.
Chuuk • Oceania > Micronesia
This article is a version of Hezel's earlier work on Chuuk suicide (see document no. 41). In this article, Hezel makes more eplicit the indirect relationship between modernization and the high suicide rate among young Chuuk males. Here, and in the ot...