Book
Bengali conceptions of mental illness
University Microfilms • Ann Arbor, Mich. • Published In 1992 • Pages:
By: Bhattacharyya, Deborah Poole, Poole, Deborah.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This dissertation, written as a contribution to the growing literature in ethnopsychiatry, examines Bengali folk concepts of mental illness. Bhattacharyya's research on this subject employs a theoretical orientation based on the sociology of knowledge of Alfred Schutz, used in combination with the author's ethnographic methodological design. 'The primary aim of the study is to delineate the meaning of the psychiatric domain in Bengali culture phenomenologically or from the point of the actors themselves' (p. 1). In general, the research as presented here, explores the relationship between knowledge and social behavior. Social activity is analyzed '…within the psychiatric domain and the knowledge which exists as the emergent social product of that activity' (pp. 19-20). This knowledge is then analyzed in terms of those ethnopsychiatric theories that form an integral part of the internal structure of the psychiatric domain and which places that domain within the socio-cultural context.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Reviews and critiques
- Theoretical orientation in research and its results
- Observation in research
- Interviewing in research
- Organization and analysis of results of research
- Personality disorders
- Invalidism
- Sickness
- Theory of disease
- Sorcery
- Magical and mental therapy
- Shamans and psychotherapists
- Revelation and divination
- Ethnopsychology
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Bengali
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2002
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Asia
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- South Asia
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Sociologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- John Beierle ; 1992
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1975-1976 [p. 29]
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1975-76
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Calcutta, West Bengal, India
- NotesAdditional notes
- [by] Deborah P. Bhattacharyya
- Thesis (Ph.D.) -- Indiana University, 1981
- UM: AAC8119041
- Bibliography: p. 286-299. Includes glossary.
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Bengalis