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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Bures, Frank.     Subjects     Ethnology.     Ethnopsychology.     Human geography.     Medical anthropology.     Psychiatry, Transcultural.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Bures, Frank.       by title:      The geography of mad...         MARC Display

The geography of madness : penis thieves, voodoo death, and the search for the meaning of the world's strangest syndromes / Frank Bures. by Bures, Frank. Brooklyn, NY ; London : Melville House, 2016. Subjects Ethnology.   Ethnopsychology.   Human geography.   Medical anthropology.   Psychiatry, Transcultural. ISBN:  9781612193724 1612193722 Description:  xiii, 241 pages ; 23 cm Requests:  0 Summary:  "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"--   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Hawaii Kai Public Library Adult Nonfiction 306 Bu Checked In Add Copy to MyList Hawaii State Library Social Science & Philosophy 306 Bu Checked In Add Copy to MyList Hilo Public Library Adult Nonfiction 306 Bures Checked In Add Copy to MyList

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