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Publication details [#49167]

Wilce, James M. Jr. 2008. Scientizing Bangladeshi psychiatry: Parallelism, enregisterment, and the cure for a magic complex. Language in Society 37 (1) : 91–114.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

psychiatry | register | ritual | scientific discussion

Place, Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Journal WWW

journals.cambridge.org/

Annotation

This paper argues that the Bangla psychiatric register includes the kind of pervasive usage of parallelism usually linked to ritual texts. This points to a deep hybridity that may add to the psychiatric unease epitomized in the magic complex.