The Clear and the Hidden
Person, Self, and Suicide among the Telefolmin of Papua New Guinea
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 13627657 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Dan Jorgensen (0000-0001-8933-6122, University of Western Ontario, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1984 |
| Volume | 14 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 113-126 |
| Publication date | 1984-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | OMEGA - Journal of Death and Dying (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0030-2228 • E-ISSN: 1541-3764 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2190/qe5a-6mdy-ube2-hyky |
| OpenAlex | W2063819988 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 9 |
Among the Telefolmin, women's suicide is culturally recognized while men's suicides are held to be exceptional; despite this, more men commit suicide than women, a pattern contrary to cultural expectations. Analysis of motives reveals that men tend to commit suicide in the face of rupture in marital relations. An examination of concepts of male personhood demonstrates that the culturally enjoined requirement of self-restraint and emotional muting is suspended in husband-wife relations. From this point of view marriage affords a privileged relation in which a man's self is permitted to emerge, while marital disruption jeopardizes this emergent self. In such circumstances suicide is the final act in an already advanced process of destruction of the self
Commit · Ethnology · Face (sociological concept · Medical emergency · New guinea · Personhood · Poison control · Political science · Relation (database · Sociology · Suicide prevention · Wife · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Cultural Differences and Values · Law · Medicine · Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies · Psychology · Social Psychology
| Unique citing works | 5 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,13 |
| Citation span | 1986 - 1999 (14) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |