Suicide in Sri Lanka: The anthropology of an epidemic.
- Submitting institution
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University of Durham
- Unit of assessment
- 22 - Anthropology and Development Studies
- Output identifier
- 93384
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
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10.4324/9781315743707
- Publisher
- Routledge
- ISBN
- 9781138820746
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
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- Year of publication
- 2014
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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- Research group(s)
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A - Social Anthropology
- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- A long-form output (monograph) based on research spanning both PhD and postdoctoral fellowship, incorporating a wide-range of data. The research involved ethnographic studies in three “arenas” where suicide was constructed as a social and health problem – households at village level, a mental health clinic, and police and coroner investigations. Research at the Sri Lankan National Archives allowed the author to trace changing constructions of suicide from the 17th century to the present day. The book integrates ethnographic and historical sources to develop a theoretical approach to suicide alongside accessible summaries of the main arguments to support suicide prevention interventions.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- No
- English abstract
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