Tom (University of Sussex, UK) Widger 
Suicide in Sri Lanka [EPUB ebook] 
The Anthropology of an Epidemic

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Why people kill themselves remains an enduring and unanswered question. 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, anthropologist Tom Widger draws from long-term fieldwork in a Sinhala...

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Format EPUB ● Pages 222 ● ISBN 9781317589921 ● Publisher Taylor and Francis ● Published 2015 ● Downloadable 3 times ● Currency EUR ● ID 4248348 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM
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