Descripción del título
The geography of madness : ...
"Jon Ronson meets David Grann in this fascinating, wildly entertaining adventure and travel story about how culture can make us go totally insane The Geography of Madness is an investigation of "culture-bound" syndromes, which are far stranger than they sound. Why is it, for example, that some men believe, against all reason, that vandals stole their penises, even though they're in good physical shape? In The Geography of Madness, acclaimed magazine writer Frank Bures travels around the world to trace culture-bound syndromes to their sources--and in the process, tells a remarkable story about the strange things all of us believe"--
Monografía
monografia Rebiun37961045 https://catalogo.rebiun.org/rebiun/record/Rebiun37961045 m o d cr ||||||||||| 160321s2016 nyu o 000 0 eng 2016013620 9781612193731 ebook) 1612193730 9781612193724 hardback) AU@ 000057199006 ED11BC47-880C-4B4E-84AB-3D209C82B2F7 OverDrive, Inc. http://www.overdrive.com DLC eng rda pn DLC YDXCP TEFOD IDEBK N$T OCLCF KYB HCO DLC OCLCO INARC OCLCO NZAUC OCLCQ OCLCO CLOUD OCLCQ pcc POL 038000 bisacsh SOC 002010 bisacsh SOC 022000 bisacsh 306 23 SOC002010 SOC015000 TRV001000 bisacsh Bures, Frank author The geography of madness penis thieves, voodoo death, and the search for the meaning of the world's strangest syndromes Frank Bures Brooklyn, NY London Melville House [2016] Brooklyn, NY London Brooklyn, NY London Melville House 1 online resource 1 online resource Text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier The case of the missing manhood -- Following threads -- Culture bound -- Modern minds -- Savage minds -- Bad buns -- American maladies -- Mingling medicines -- Strange loops -- The dragon's tail -- The chains that bind us -- The worm turns -- Beyond belief -- To the sea "Jon Ronson meets David Grann in this fascinating, wildly entertaining adventure and travel story about how culture can make us go totally insane The Geography of Madness is an investigation of "culture-bound" syndromes, which are far stranger than they sound. Why is it, for example, that some men believe, against all reason, that vandals stole their penises, even though they're in good physical shape? In The Geography of Madness, acclaimed magazine writer Frank Bures travels around the world to trace culture-bound syndromes to their sources--and in the process, tells a remarkable story about the strange things all of us believe"-- Provided by publisher Ethnology Ethnopsychology Human geography Medical anthropology Psychiatry, Transcultural Ethnopsychology Ethnologie Ethnopsychologie Ethnopsychiatrie ethnopsychology. SOCIAL SCIENCE- Anthropology- Cultural. SOCIAL SCIENCE- Human Geography. TRAVEL- Special Interest- Adventure. Ethnology. Ethnopsychology. Human geography. Medical anthropology. Psychiatry, Transcultural. travelog (performed works genre) Travel writing. Travel writing. Récits de voyages. Print version Bures, Frank. Geography of madness. Brooklyn, NY ; London : Melville House, [2016] 9781612193724 (DLC) 2016001435