Uncultural Behavior : An Anthropological Investigation of Suicide in the Southern Philippines

直到最近，Kulbi-Kenipaqan的人們依照傳統習俗和信仰生活在現代世界的邊緣，實行農業轉移，並在巴拉望島的偏遠角落實現外向和平的生活。然而，這個社會和文化基本上與其北方鄰居無法區分的小社區是世界上自殺率最高的社區之一。為什麼Kulbi的相對幸福和富裕的居民成為絕望的犧牲品？非文化行為調查了菲律賓南部這些非暴力和有秩序的人中，自我造成死亡的奧秘。

為了理解這種現象，Charles Macdonald探討了這個巴拉望人民的信仰、習俗和一般性格，探索他們如何生活、思考、行為和彼此聯繫。前面的章節研究了群體的形成和社會關係、物質文化、婚姻和法律的空間化、提供了對Kulbi生活方式以民族志廣泛的描述。作者提供了對社區精神世界的見解，並闡述當地的情緒理論以及提供自殺的土著評論詞彙和習語的詞彙。有關自殺及其後果的詳細案例研究讓讀者了解Kulbi人如何對待自殺以及他們對此主題的矛盾觀點。在對統計信息進行分析之後，作者提出了五個“概況”，將動機，參與者和環境結合在一起。他最後通過研究神經生物學和遺傳學以及心理學，社會學和歷史的觀點來總結。

Until recently the people of Kulbi-Kenipaqan lived on the fringes of the modern world following traditional customs and beliefs, practicing shifting agriculture, and leading an outwardly peaceful existence in a remote corner of Palawan island. Yet this small community, basically indistinguishable in society and culture from its immediate neighbors to the north, has one of the highest rates of suicide in the world. Why would the comparatively happy and well-off inhabitants of Kulbi fall victim to despair? Uncultural Behavior investigates the mystery of self-inflicted death among this nonviolent and orderly people in the Southern Philippines.

To make sense of such a phenomenon, Charles Macdonald probes the beliefs, customs, and general disposition of this Palawan people, exploring how they live, think, behave, and relate to one another. Early chapters examine group formation and the spatialization of social ties, material culture, marriage, and law, providing an extensive ethnographic account of the Kulbi way of life. The author offers insights into the spiritual world of the community and addresses the local theory of emotions and the words that supply the vocabulary and idiom of indigenous commentaries on suicide. A well-documented case study of a suicide and its aftermath gives readers an idea of how Kulbi people treat suicide and their conflicting views on the subject. Following an analysis of statistical information, the author presents five "profiles," bringing together motivations, actors, and circumstances. He concludes by examining the perspectives of neurobiology and genetics as well as psychology, sociology, and history.

  Charles J-H Macdonald (Autor)

Publisher:University of Hawaii Press 

ISBN:    978-0824830601 

原價   US 62   台幣價 NT$2170