Between chains and vagrancy : living with mental illness in Kintampo, Ghana

This thesis describes the family experience of mental illness in Kintampo, Ghana. Beginning from the history of colonial and anthropological speculations on mental illness and the dangers of acculturation in Africa, it provides an ethnographically informed analysis to assumptions regarding the value...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Read, U. M.
Published: University College London (University of London) 2012
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.625847