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Suicide in Sri Lanka: The Anthropology of an Epidemic

Suicide in Sri Lanka: The Anthropology of an Epidemic

Hardcover

Series: Routledge Contemporary South Asia

Death & DyingGeneral Racism & Ethnic StudiesGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 1138820741
ISBN13: 9781138820746
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Nov 26 2014
Pages: 198
Weight: 1.01
Height: 0.70 Width: 6.20 Depth: 9.30
Language: English

With a focus on Sri Lanka, a country that for several decades has reported 'epidemic' levels of suicidal behaviour, this book develops a unique perspective, linking the causes and meanings of suicidal practices to social processes across moments, lifetimes, and history. Extending anthropological approaches to practice, learning, and agency, the author draws from long-term fieldwork in a Sinhala Buddhist community to develop an ethnographic theory of suicide that foregrounds local knowledge and sets out a charter for prevention.

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