Dear Tom,
congratulations and thank you for the self-promotion.
I was waiting for the book to come out as paperback.
Best,
Karin
Karin Polit
Department of Anthropology
South Asia Institute
University of Heidelberg
INF 330
69120 Heidelberg
Tel: + 49 (0) 6221 548931
> Am 12.01.2017 um 16:42 schrieb Tom Widger <[log in to unmask]>:
>
> Dear List Members
>
> With apologies for the self-promotion, some of you might be interested in
> my recent book, "Suicide in Sri Lanka: The Anthropology of an Epidemic."
>
> "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 Buddhist community to develop
> an ethnographic theory of suicide that foregrounds local knowledge and sets
> out a charter for prevention. The book highlights the motives of children
> and adults becoming suicidal and how certain gender, age, class
> relationships and violence are prone to give rise to suicidal responses. By
> linking these experiences to emotional states, it develops an
> ethnopsychiatric model of suicide rooted in social practice. Widger then
> goes on to examine how suicides are resolved at village and national
> levels, tracing the roots of interventions to the politics of colonial and
> post-colonial social welfare and health regimes. Exploring local accounts
> of suicide as both ‘evidence’ for the suicide epidemic and as an ‘ethos’ of
> suicidality shaping subjective worlds, Suicide in Sri Lanka shows how
> anthropological analysis can offer theoretical as well as policy insights."
>
> An affordable paperback has just been published by Manohar Books in India,
> and can be ordered from here:
>
> http://www.manoharbooks.com/BookDetails.asp?Id=147162&isbn=9781138227057
>
> More pricey ebook and hardback versions are available direct from Routledge
> (
> https://www.routledge.com/Suicide-in-Sri-Lanka-The-Anthropology-of-an-Epidemic/Widger/p/book/9781138820746;
> quote "FLR40" at checkout to get 20% discount).
>
> All best wishes
>
> Tom
>
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