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Auteur(s) : Kilroy-Marac, Katie (1974-....). Auteur du texte
Titre(s) : An impossible inheritance [Texte imprimé] : postcolonial psychiatry and the work of memory in a West African clinic / Katie Kilroy-Marac
Publication : Oakland, California : University of California press, 2019
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (xiv, 269 pages) : illustrations ; 23 cm
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references and index
"Weaving sound historical research with rich ethnographic insight, An Impossible Inheritance
tells the story of the emergence, disavowal, and afterlife of a distinctive project
in transcultural psychiatry initiated at the Fann Psychiatric Clinic in Dakar, Senegal
during the 1960s and 1970s. Today's clinic remains haunted by its past and Katie Kilroy-Marac
brilliantly examines the complex forms of memory work undertaken by its affiliates
over a sixty year period. Through stories such as that of the the ghost said to roam
the clinic's halls, the mysterious death of a young doctor sometimes attributed to
witchcraft, and the spirit possession ceremonies that may have taken place in Fann's
courtyard, Kilroy-Marac argues that memory work is always an act of the imagination
and a moral practice with unexpected temporal, affective, and political dimensions.
By exploring how accounts about the Fann Psychiatric Clinic and its past speak to
larger narratives of postcolonial and neoliberal transformation, An Impossible Inheritance
examines the complex relationship between memory, history, and power within the institution
and beyond"--Provided by publisher
Sujet(s) : Hôpitaux psychiatriques -- Dakar (Sénégal) -- XXe siècle
Maladies mentales -- Dakar (Sénégal) -- XXe siècle
Ethnopsychologie
Indice(s) Dewey : 362.2 (23e éd.) = Personnes atteintes de maladies mentales et de handicaps mentaux (problèmes et services sociaux)
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780520300187. - ISBN 0520300181. - ISBN 9780520300200. - ISBN 0520300203. - ISBN 9780520971691 (erroné) (rel.)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb45750773j
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FRBNF45750773
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Table des matières : Introduction : entanglements ; Archiving madness : from colonial psychiatry to the establishment of Fann ; Origin stories : Collomb's Fann and Senghor's Senegal ; Nostalgic for modernity (or, looking back on a golden age) ; The ink that marked history ; Strategic ambivalence ; Distinctions of the present