The Clear and the Hidden: Person, Self, and Suicide among the Telefolmin of Papua New Guinea

摘要: Among the Telefolmin, women's suicide is culturally recognized while men's suicides are held to be exceptional; despite this, more men commit than women, a pattern contrary cultural expectations. Analysis of motives reveals that tend in face rupture marital relations. An examination concepts male personhood demonstrates enjoined requirement self-restraint and emotional muting suspended husband-wife From this point view marriage affords privileged relation which man's self permitted emerge, disruption jeopardizes emergent self. In such circumstances final act an already advanced process destruction