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Casting out anger: stress, possession and the everyday in Taita, Kenya
- Abstract:
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In 1955, Canadian psychiatrist Edward Margetts arrived in Kenya to take up the post of Chief Psychiatrist at Mathari Mental Hospital in Nairobi. Upon his arrival, the doctor was invited most urgently to Taita District with numerous reports and letters indicating that district officers had never seen such high levels of ‘hysteria’ anywhere in Kenya as they had in Taita. The inexplicable presence of disturbed behaviour, outbursts of violence, and general mental disorder was beginn...
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- Publication status:
- Accepted
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher:
- Duke University Press Publisher's website
- Host title:
- Psychiatric Contours
- Series:
- Theory in Forms
- Place of publication:
- Duram and London
Item Description
- Language:
- English
- Keywords:
- Subtype:
- Chapter
- Pubs id:
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1240033
- Local pid:
- pubs:1240033
- Deposit date:
- 2022-02-17
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- Notes:
- Accepted for publication in Psychiatric Contours, forthcoming from Duke University Press.
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