Behind the Statistics: The Ethnography of Suicide in Palestine
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- 作者：Nadia Dabbagh (1) ntdabbagh@dha.gov.ae
- 关键词：Suicide – ; Palestine – ; Ethnography – ; Statistics
- 刊名：Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry
- 出版年：2012
- 出版时间：June 2012
- 年：2012
- 卷：36
- 期：2
- 页码：286-305
- 全文大小：189.7 KB
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- 刊物类别：Humanities, Social Sciences and Law
- 刊物主题：Social Sciences
Anthropology
Public Health
Psychiatry
Sociology
Clinical Psychology - 出版者：Springer Netherlands
- ISSN：1573-076X
文摘
As part of the first anthropological study on suicide in the modern Arab world, statistics gathered from the Ramallah region of the West Bank in Palestine painted an apparently remarkably similar picture to that found in Western countries such as the UK and France. More men than women completed suicide, more women than men attempted suicide. Men used more violent methods such as hanging and women softer methods such as medication overdose. Completed suicide was higher in the older age range, attempted suicide in the younger. However, ethnographic fieldwork and detailed examination of the case studies and suicide narratives gathered and analysed within the cultural, political and economic contexts illustrated more starkly the differences in suicidal practices between Palestinian West Bank society of the 1990s and other regions of the world. The central argument of the paper is that although statistics tell a very important story, ethnography uncovers a multitude of stories ‘behind the statistics’, and thus helps us to make sense of both cultural context and subjective experience.