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TL;DR: One woman’s life history of mental illness in West Sumatra, Indonesia, and the shifting explanatory narratives used over time by herself and her family to understand and manage this illness are explored.
Abstract: This article explores one woman’s life history of mental illness in West Sumatra, Indonesia, and the shifting explanatory narratives used over time by herself and her family to understand and manage this illness. For most of her adult life, Amak Dahniar has heard voices, which had been understood as an illness caused by harmful spiritual influences; later in life she received a diagnosis of paranoid schizophrenia. Amak Dahniar’s life story highlights the tensions between local understandings and methods of care and transnational psychiatric framings of mental illness.
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TL;DR: In this article, a richly detailed study of contemporary elite Malay polygamy in Malaysia is presented, based on fieldwork spanning over twenty-five years, with seventeen key female informants drawn from elite circles in Kuala Lumpur.
Abstract: Miriam Koktvedgaard Zeitzen’s richly detailed study of contemporary
elite Malay polygamy in Malaysia is a welcome addition to
scholarship on the country and beyond. Based on fieldwork
stretching over twenty-five years, the book is organized thematically
around narratives from seventeen key female informants drawn
from elite circles in Kuala Lumpur (KL). ...
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