Periodic Reporting for period 1 - MADSEA (MADness, Religiosity and Environment: belief and materiality in community responses to mental difference and distress among early modern SEAfarers.)

Our understanding of mental illness has been shaped by the study of experiences of mental difference, disturbance and distress within the walls of psychiatric hospitals and asylums, often within single national contexts. Yet human experiences are rarely so neatly confined to...