book chapter
A Psychotic personality in the South Seas
Psychiatry • 13 (2) • Published In 1950 • Pages: 189-204
By: Spiro, Melford E..
Abstract
This is one of the few available accounts of a psychotic from a pre-literate society. It contains several interviews from the author's field notes as well as an interesting interpretation of the case.
- Subjects
- Fauna
- Descriptive somatology
- Drives and emotions
- Life history materials
- Acculturation and culture contact
- Fishing
- Tillage
- Diet
- Personal grooming
- Dwellings
- Settlement patterns
- Shipbuilding
- Mercantile business
- Travel
- Gender status
- Visiting and hospitality
- Behavior toward non-relatives
- Theory of disease
- Suicide
- Sexuality
- General sex restrictions
- culture
- Woleai Region
- HRAF PubDate
- 2000
- Region
- Oceania
- Sub Region
- Micronesia
- Document Type
- book chapter
- Evaluation
- Creator Type
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- Analyst
- William P. Mangin ; 1950-1956; Teferi A. Adem 2005
- Field Date
- 1947-1948
- Coverage Date
- 1947-1948
- Coverage Place
- Ifaluk, Woleai Region, Federated States of Micronesia
- Notes
- Melford E. Spiro
- This document consists of excerpts
- Includes bibliographical references
- LCSH
- Caroline Islands--Social life and customs/Micronesians--Social life and customs