Author: APPLETON, ANN L.,
Title: Acts of Integration, Expressions of Faith. Madness, Deatch and Ritual in Melanau Ontology. First edition.
Description: Phillips, ME, Borneo Research Council, 2006. Original bi-coloured printed limp glossy wrappers. (xxiii), 361pp. Many black/white illustrations in text, after original field photographs, sketch-maps in text and full-page, extensive footnotes, foreword and preface, appendix (borderline personality disorder), glossary melanau dayak-english which includes a note on transliteration, extensive bibliography, index, lists of maps and illustrations, brief synopsis of chapter topics, acknowledgements, table of contents. [Borneo Research Council Monograph Series, volume Nine]. Monograph after author's doctoral [field] research. A significant ethnographic contribution to psychiatric anthropology, [..] (cf. preface), amongst Melanau Dayak, North Borneo. Very good copy.

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