Saints, Scholars, and Schizophrenics:
Callahan, Sidney
sounds like a figure from a c o n t e by Vol- will it take us to realize what television is tradictory pressures to stay with the...
...In the non-conjugal households of sisters and brothers, the equality and freedom of the women makes them reluctant to marry, even though the motheris a dominant figure in the family...
...Her own 200 pages of material contradict her appraisal...
...It is as if her hostility to the sexual repressiveness ofIrish Jansenism, a hostility always to be encouraged, has made her tone-deaf in her interpretation of religious phenomena...
...We see sive punishment...
...obscurantism and fear of print again oc- doomed to poverty, loneliness and the The church's suppression of dangerous celibate service of old parents...
...The farms printing led to the creation ofthe Index of tire second volume, shows how print en- are so small and the land so poorthat the Forbidden Books...
...single women have careers, and there is an absolute proscription against rape...
...The church, hospital, school and seminary, which Scheper-Hughes sees as refuges from intimacy and sexuality, can also be seen as extensions of the family...
...but the Mother Goddess worshiped by the ancestors of these Celts might not disapprove...
...Protestant printers abled men of science to create what we fate of those who inherit is depressing...
...Scheper-Hughes also seems strangely insensitive to the religious idealism ofthe people...
...is that the Irish repress and shame their children through the use of physical punishment and verbal aggressiveness...
...But in the end she plowed on and probably got her doctorate out of it and was awarded a new research grant.Are thesepeople going to feelbetrayed by this book...
...Is it fair to quote an informant who tells you something while waiting "in a slow moving l i n e " to go to confession...
...Nancy Scheper-Hughes is sensitive to these problems and expresses regrets for any affronts...
...old novels and an Irish goqd talk...
...One foresees, with the pressure...
...I would not want to Scheper-Hughes successfully portrays And yet, at the beginning, popes and be without her massive documentation, the cultural double binds of the society bishops and reformers all welcomed but her ideas are too important to be left and the strategies used to come to terms Gutenberg's invention as a "divine" and in this forbidding format...
...OD Hans Kung Yale University Press New Have~ and Londol recent work in child development stressing cognitive interpretation of parental actions as primary...
...Gradually Nancy Scheper- how much things have changed since the psychiatrist writing in the newspaper are Hughes decided to focus on the related classic study of the Irish countryman by cited as the main sources...
...Her disproportionately high numbers of ways ofdealing with print, and were each publisher would do well to persuade her lonely bachelor farmers, the heirs who harmed and deformed by the unforesee- to publish a slim version ofthis work for could not escape...
...From the material she has tried act with the socioeconomic pressures to to construct an ambitious analysis ofthe produce high rates of mental illness...
...Women texts facilitated their circulation, and cupy center stage.At times the book is long-winded, re- will not marry into theharsh farm life...
...4 balanced, si balanced, sensitire o1 reading Freudian philosophy...
...One special irony is that Scheper-Hughes describes the people as anxious about "penetration, loss, retentiveness,and vigilance...
...In her fascinating There is a scramble n o t to be the son who for the heavily censored, lucrative analysis of the Galileo case, Catholic will have to inherit the land and be Catholic markets of Southern Europe...
...Social life is not confined to couples, and dress and meal preparation are minimized...
...The resecondary school...
...sounds like a figure from a c o n t e by Vol- will it take us to realize what television is tradictory pressures to stay with the old taire as rewritten by Borges) who thought doing to us...
...The family was wel- vincing...
...She is less successful "peaceful" art...
...But other feminist aspects of the cultureare not appreciated...
...In fact no v ou!d not be derogatory everyone sent dilemmas, becomes a reality need- actual observations are offered of excescooperated with the usual Irish zest for ing no suspension of disbelief...
...After the village was of an equally engaging group ofpeople...
...Many nations of homogeneous people respond in a trusting way to their institutions...
...These cultural factors interS i d n e y C a l l n h n n ventories...
...Print divided the church into which deserve entire books to tion declines even more...
...Schepertopics of the death of the countryside...
...Yes, I think Scheper-Hughes makes her case that the marital relationship suffers and that male sexuality and aggression are repressed...
...A truly childrearing, sexual asceticism and relidifficulty of using new technology detailed study of printing and society in gious commitment contribute to mental wisely...
...An anthropologist in Ireland Self-esteem and self-acceptance is further injured by a rejection ofthe body SAINTS, SCHOLARS, AND SCHIZO- anomie and mental illness...
...I N 1975 Nancy Scheper-Hughes, a high rates of schizophrenia, alcoholism The evidence for this argument is young anthropologist accompanied by and stress diseases in western Ireland...
...Print petitive and unconvincing...
...The two themselves--an index of how much she the psychiatric hospital are filled with groups evolved separate, contrasting had to exclude from consideration...
...It will not do to explain in a paragraph that Joan of Arc, Francis of Assisi and Saint Brendan are examples ofpsychotics whose delusions "pinpoint the trouble areas in a given community...
...The pubs and Catholics and Protestants...
...Eisenstein's analysis and gladly so, a spate ofbooks following when trying to show that patterns of Irish prompts humble, grim reflections on the on the paths she has indicated...
...After the English there's still the problem of the invading social scientist...
...We feel the con- Hughes shows little familiarity with the Commonweah : 3 IO Hereone ofthe worlds most exciting theologians focuses his attention onthe question ofFreud's atheism...
...such acceptance of authority is very foreign to pluralistic, heterogeneous suspicious America where individual and group fights have to be vigilantly protected...
...The maternal familial emphasis in the culture may also account for the positive attitude toward total institutions...
...muddled and filled with internal contrahusband and three children under five, The result is fascinating, provocative dictions...
...When Nancy Scheper-Hughes comed in pub, parlor and parish, and the stays with her descriptive material she Hughes gives instances of extraordinarynurturance on the part of both men an husband was hired as a teacher in the emerges as a perceptive, witty observer women in tradition and folklore...
...undergraduate use...
...The aggressiveProtestant use of monumental study, constituting the en- and economic productivity...
...Religious beliefs encourage more Nancy Scheper-Hughes young patients...
...Conrad Arensberg...
...she points to a "lack of ¢omrnunications" and "basic trust" toward outsiders...
...The KirkLs Reviews $8.95 REUD dthbl ane proem o f CJ...
...These regularly outranked" wealth" and' 'power...
...A final issue presented by the book is the ethics of field research such as this...
...She relies on old psychoanalytic sources and never seems to have heard of the likes of Kagan and Piaget who cast a different light on early child development...
...He cludes with a jrank and provocati~e discussion ofuhat psychoanalysis may be able to readh the Catholic Church...
...On the self-disciplined way to a happy death the village did not seemto have any instances ofassault,rape, theft, adultery, divorce, or crime...
...In the course of the seek success in the cities or in America...
...She beganvisiting the countypsychiatric hospitalto and sexuality which distorts maternal PHRENICS: nurturance and relationships between the MENTAL ILLNESS IN RURAL IRELAND interview and give projective tests to the sexes...
...Alcoholism, mental illness and depression in the neverending rain were the main problems...
...and this Celtic en- physical punishment of children come on "Irish inter-personal relationships" clave, with its history, customs and pre- from the villagers themselves...
...This, after she reports being accepted in the village and given reams of trusting communications and countless conversations about intimate matters...
...She does report that women have "honor and right" in the church and that males must stand far from the altar and not dare receive communion frequently...
...How long probably hold a lot of surprises...
...to her husband's students as well as as- of contraception and acceptance of total signing them essay topics and value in- institutions...
...It's enoughto make a hospitable people really defensive...
...Which leads to the questions--in a crunch, do you prefer people taking things out on . themselves or on others...
...The basic thrust of her argument beginning to understand print...
...I...
...consulted that list when choosing titles call modern science...
...of California, $14.95, 245 pp...
...Here is a society in which women are equal, girls are reared to be achievers, women need not marry...
...ported protests and complaints about assured that the anthropological research The writing is good...
...Married women keep their maiden names, work until childbirth and expect to have easy births (without Lamaze training...
...The point never discussed in this account of a culture is whether some repressions are worth the pricel Sex and aggression are severely repressed, but it appears that wit, learning,, _ music, the work ethic and altruistic sacrifice for family and ideals flourish despite the depressed economy...
...communal values while being urged by most of Scripture was a late medieval The last and longest part of this the government to pursue modernization forgery...
...She gave the same tests guilt and more conflicts through rejection Univ...
...Probably so...
...The immen-sity of the project explains and justifiesbrightestsons, flee the isolated region to also encouraged the introduction of a these minor faults...
...Did these people really give informed consent for the study of their "schizophregenic" family patterns...
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...the lined the pockets of the very men who village girls, along with the best and printed the hated vernacular bibles...
...While arguing for an Irish amlived fora year in a small seacoast village and fun to read, but only partially con- bivalence toward children, Scheperin western Ireland...
...Wait till they read that one in the pub in Ballyban...
...In the course ofhis discussion, Kiing traces Freud's views on religion and religious longing, presents for cor----:--- ,L_ _~,:,..a ard religion 41u~g andAdler, and shows fill tht f nayareud's arguments ihi aganst teexstence of Gd thk o areeoogically unsound...
...In filling out value inventofies the high school students insisted on adding "self-discipline" and "a happy death" to the list...
...new rigidity and uniformity into church book she indicates several dozen topics Marriage rates decrease and the populadiscipline...
...After four centuries we are only Italy from 1470 to, say, 1570 would illness...
...able consequences of their decisions...
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