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Sylhet, the area of Bangladesh most closely associated with overseas migration, has seen an increase in remittances sent home from abroad, introducing new inequalities. Social change has also been mediated by the global forces of Western biomedicine and orthodox Islam. This book examines the effects of these modernizing trends on mental health...

Table of Contents

List of illustrations
Acknowledgements
List of key informants

Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2. Sylhet and Social Change
Chapter 3. An Outline Ethnopsychiatry of Sylhet
Chapter 4. The Relationship Between Madness and Religiosity
Chapter 5. Sorcery: ‘What else do we Bengalis do?
Chapter 6. Marriage, Madness and Resistance
Chapter 7. Spirit Possession, Personal Autonomy and the Law of Allah
Chapter 8. Muslim patients, Hindu healers
Chapter 9. Female Saints
Chapter 10. Conclusion

Glossary
Bibliography

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      Publisher: Berghahn Books
      Publication Date: 8/1/2012 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780857454881, 978-0857454881
      ISBN10: 0857454889

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Sylhet, the area of Bangladesh most closely associated with overseas migration, has seen an increase in remittances sent home from abroad, introducing new inequalities. Social change has also been mediated by the global forces of Western biomedicine and orthodox Islam. This book examines the effects of these modernizing trends on mental health...

      Table of Contents

      List of illustrations
      Acknowledgements
      List of key informants

      Chapter 1. Introduction
      Chapter 2. Sylhet and Social Change
      Chapter 3. An Outline Ethnopsychiatry of Sylhet
      Chapter 4. The Relationship Between Madness and Religiosity
      Chapter 5. Sorcery: ‘What else do we Bengalis do?
      Chapter 6. Marriage, Madness and Resistance
      Chapter 7. Spirit Possession, Personal Autonomy and the Law of Allah
      Chapter 8. Muslim patients, Hindu healers
      Chapter 9. Female Saints
      Chapter 10. Conclusion

      Glossary
      Bibliography

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