Author: Cawte, John; Lebra, William P. (foreword).
Title: Medicine Is the Law: Studies in Psychiatric Anthropology of Australian Tribal Societies.
Description: Adelaide University Press of Hawaii / Rigby Limited, 1974. Australian ed. Hardback octavo, no jacket as issued, very good condition, green pictorial board cover, black & white photos centre spread, endpaper map, minor edgewear, non-author written dedication. 261 pp. This copy, Australian edition: Medicine is the Law, by John Cawte (Rigby Limited, 1974, but copyright University Press of Hawaii). A classic of transcultural psychiatry, based on expeditions by John Cawte to remote Australian Aboriginal communities in northern Australia. Some of the topics are: child development among the Walbiri at Yuendumu - the Aboriginal doctor (medicine man), healing and tribal law among the Walbiri, and the Kulari, Kuini and Walambi at Kalumburu - concepts of disease - sorcery - malgri (culture-bound illness) among the Lardil and Kaiadilt of Mornington Island - circumcision and subincision. ISBN: 0851797407

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