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| Reading Sri Lanka's Suicide Rate | ||
| 作者 | Widger, Tom (著) |
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| 出處題名 | Modern Asian Studies |
| 卷期 | v.48 n.3 |
| 出版日期 | 2014.05 |
| 頁次 | 791 - 825 |
| 出版者 | Cambridge University Press |
| 出版者網址 | http://www.journals.cambridge.org |
| 出版地 | New York, NY, US [紐約, 紐約州, 美國] |
| 資料類型 | 期刊論文=Journal Article |
| 使用語言 | 英文=English |
| 附註項 | Author Affiliation: University of Sussex, UK. |
| 摘要 | By the final decade of the twentieth century, rates of suicide in Sri Lanka ranked among the highest in the world. However, in 1996 the suicide rate began to fall and was soon at its lowest level in almost 30 years. This decline poses problems for classic sociological theories of suicide and forces us to question some fundamental assumptions underlying social scientific approaches to the suicide rate. Drawing from sociological, medical epidemiological, historical, and anthropological secondary sources as well as 21 months of original ethnographic research into suicide in Sri Lanka, I argue that there are four possible readings of the country's suicide rate. While the first three readings provide windows onto parts of the story, the fourth–a composite view–provides a new way of thinking about suicide, not just in Sri Lanka but also cross-culturally. In so doing the paper poses questions for how the relationship between suicide and society might be imagined. |
| 目次 | Abstract 791 Introduction 791 Suicide rates and the wellbeing of nations 793 Suicide at the local level: self-harm and self-inflicted death in Madampe 796 Social contexts of suicide hierarchy and relatedness 797 Demographic patterns of suicidal behaviour 802 Reading the Sri Lankan suicide rate 808 The social reading of the suicide rate 808 The methodological reading of the suicide rate 812 The cultural reading of the suicide rate 814 Towards a fourth reading: affinities for suicide 817 Exploring affinities for suicide in Madampe 819 Conclusion 824 |
| ISSN | 0026749X (P); 14698099 (E) |
| 點閱次數 | 22 |
| 建檔日期 | 2023.12.26 |
| 更新日期 | 2023.12.26 |
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