Book
Culture and mental illness: a study from Uganda
Published for the Makerere Institute of Social Research [by] East African Pub. House • (36) • Published In 1970 • Pages: 82
By: Orley, John H..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is a sixteen-month study of mental illness among the Baganda people by the social anthropologist and psychologist John Orley. He discusses Baganda understanding of the body, categories of diseases, traditional forms of treatment, and beliefs surrounding illness, including the supernatural agents involved. The Baganda regard any kind of mental illness, even tantrums or mild epilepsy, as the 'spoiling of the brain,' an understanding that has serious implications for treatment and care. For example, although epileptics and mildly-retarded individuals are capable of work and living in the community, they are considered dysfunctional invalides and are barred from work. Furthermore epilepsy is considered contagious and epileptics lead an outcast-like existence in the community.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Personality disorders
- Morbidity
- Invalidism
- Theory of disease
- Magical and mental therapy
- Hospitals and clinics
- Ethnopsychology
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Ganda
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 1998
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Africa
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Eastern Africa
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator TypesThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Ethnologist
- Psychologist
- 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
- Ian Skoggard ; 1997
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- unknown
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- unknown
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Kyaddondo and Kyaggwe Counties, Uganda
- NotesAdditional notes
- [by] John H. Orley
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 80-82)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 72184596
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Ganda (African people)