Colonizing madness : asylum and community in Fiji / Jacqueline Leckie.
Colonizing madness : asylum and community in Fiji / Jacqueline Leckie.
Colonizing madness : asylum and community in Fiji / Jacqueline Leckie.
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Author / Creator
Publisher
Honolulu, Hawaii : University of Hawaiʻi Press, [2020]
Call Numbers
G 2020/1185
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Language
English
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Physical content
x, 283 pages ; 24 cm
Content type
text
Media type
unmediated
Carrier type
volume
Contents
Introducing the colonalization of madness into Fiji -- Displaced minds: Indo-Fijians and mental distress -- Lialia? Indigenous Fijians, community and "madness" -- Mad women -- Diagnoses and discourse of mental disorders -- Struggling with madness: control, treatments, and resistance.
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Publisher
Honolulu, Hawaii : University of Hawaiʻi Press, [2020]
Place of Publication
Hawaii
Date Published
[2020]
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Summary
"Leckie tells a forgotten story of silence, suffering, and transgressions in the colonial Pacific. It offers new insights into a history of Fiji by entering the Pacific Islands' most enduring psychiatric institution--St Giles Psychiatric Hospital--established as Fiji's Public Lunatic Asylum in 1884. Her nuanced study reveals a microcosm of Fiji's i...
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Colonizing madness : asylum and community in Fiji / Jacqueline Leckie.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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G 2020/1185
Record Identifier
74VKaZzbNE8b
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKaZzbNE8b
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ISBN
9780824878009
DDC
362.196890099611
MMS ID
991024290419502626
