In 1944 Skultans left Latvia as a refugee. In 1990 she returned for the first time. This book is both a personal account of a homecoming, and an anthropology of a nation trying to come to terms with its past and facing an uncertain future.
First published in 1975, Madness and Morals presents the major preoccupations of nineteenth century society concerning insanity, its... Læs mere
Originally published in 1974 Intimacy and Ritual is a sympathetic study of spiritualist activities and their relation to the practitioners’ secular lives. It is based on the author’s fieldwork as a ‘participant observer’ among spiritualists in a South Wales town.
In this book, originally published in 1979 and a sequel to Madness and Morals... Læs mere