Cultural psychiatry and medical anthropology

Each of the extracts has been selected to illustrate issues of contemporary interest -these include medicine and magic, sexuality, death, psychosis, anxiety, symbols, mental disease, intoxicants, the status of normality, hysteria and suicide. Contributors: E.H. Ackerknecht, G.M. Beard, G.M. Castairs, G. Devereux, R. Firth, A.I. Hallowell, G. Harris, E. Jones, E. Kraepelin, M. Mauss, H. Murphy, W.H.R. Rivers, C.G. Seligman, C.L. Strauss, V.W. Turner, P.M. Yapp.