What makes Hari run: the social construction of madness in a highland Papua New Guinea society

Title: What makes Hari run: the social construction of madness in a highland Papua New Guinea society
Creator: Goddard, Michael
Relation: Critique of Anthropology Vol. 18, Issue 1, p. 61-81
Publisher Link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0308275X9801800103
Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd.
Resource Type: journal article
Date: 1998
Description: The substance of this article is a narrative about a man considered mad in a highland Papua New Guinea society, and about his interaction with his com munity and with an anthropologist who tried unsuccessfully to change the com munity's negative attitude towards him. It is argued that his madness was socially constructed, and cannot be adequately explained using a psychiatric paradigm, even if the psychiatric approach were modified to accommodate cultural differ ence or notions of culture-bound syndromes. It is further argued that the social construction, a dialectic of group and individual praxis, can be analytically con textualized in a moral imperative grounded in the community's kin-ordered mode of production, and can be interpreted as a communal exercise in moral iconography.
Subject: communalism; madness; morality; praxis; psychiatry
Identifier: uon:2809
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/31781
Identifier: ISSN:0308-275X
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