Volume 36, Issue 2 | Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry

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Volume 36, Issue 2

June 2012

Special Issue: Ethnographies of Suicide

Issue Editors:

James Staples,
Tom Widger

14 articles in this issue

Situating Suicide as an Anthropological Problem: Ethnographic Approaches to Understanding Self-Harm and Self-Inflicted Death
James Staples
Tom Widger
Guest Editorial 07 March 2012 Pages: 183 - 203
Tales of Decline: Reading Social Pathology into Individual Suicide in South India
Jocelyn Lim Chua
OriginalPaper 10 March 2012 Pages: 204 - 224
Suffering, Frustration, and Anger: Class, Gender and History in Sri Lankan Suicide Stories
Tom Widger
Original Paper 03 March 2012 Pages: 225 - 244
Chol Understandings of Suicide and Human Agency
Gracia Imberton
Original Paper 02 March 2012 Pages: 245 - 263
Suicidal Performances: Voicing Discontent in a Girls’ Dormitory in Kabul
Julie Billaud
Original Paper 21 April 2012 Pages: 264 - 285
Behind the Statistics: The Ethnography of Suicide in Palestine
Nadia Dabbagh
Original Paper 25 February 2012 Pages: 286 - 305
Postcolonial Suicide Among Inuit in Arctic Canada
Michael J. Kral
Original Paper 03 March 2012 Pages: 306 - 325
Erratum to: Postcolonial Suicide Among Inuit in Arctic Canada
Michael J. Kral
Erratum 10 April 2012 Pages: 326 - 326
Gendered Endings: Narratives of Male and Female Suicides in the South African Lowveld
Isak Niehaus
Original Paper 23 March 2012 Pages: 327 - 347
Mad, Bad or Heroic? Gender, Identity and Accountability in Lay Portrayals of Suicide in Late Twentieth-Century England
Christabel Owens
Helen Lambert
OriginalPaper 21 March 2012 Pages: 348 - 371
Ritual Vicissitudes: The Uncertainties of Singaporean Suicide Rites
Ruth E. Toulson
Original Paper 25 February 2012 Pages: 372 - 390
Suicide and the Afterlife: Popular Religion and the Standardisation of ‘Culture’ in Japan
Mary Picone
Original Paper 02 May 2012 Pages: 391 - 408
Explaining Suicide: An Afterword
Jean La Fontaine
Commentary 01 March 2012 Pages: 409 - 418
End Matters

News 05 May 2012 Pages: 419 - 419