Nancy Scheper-Hughes

Saints, Scholars, and Schizophrenics: Mental Illness in Rural Ireland

Berkeley, University of California Press, 1979.

RC455.S27

1981 Margaret Mead Award

"In this lucidly written and evocative account of social anomie and mental distress in western Ireland, Nancy Scheper-Hughes unveils the psychic profile of an embattled people, a nation who subjective terrain has often been romanticized as a 'land of saints and scholars'."

UC Press published a 20th anniversary edition (updated) in 2001.

From: Charles Webel 1982 review of "Saints, Scholars, and Schizophrenics: Mental Illness in Rural Ireland."
American Anthropologist, vol. 84, no. 2, p. 496-498.