Summary Of Saints Scholars And Schizophrenics
In Saints, Scholars, and Schizophrenics, by Nancy Scheper-Hughes, she emphasizes the different personalities of the local Irish. After reading this book, it opened my eyes to the different types of personalities are out there, and this novel made a point with all the information it mentions about that. After learning about the different types of personalities in the book, it gave me a new perspective on the types of personalities are out there in displaying each one differs in their own way. The first personality we stumble across that Nancy Scheper-Hughes mentions is “the mountain villagers are a hardy, long-live race of shepherds, fishermen, and dairy farmers who claim ancestry and continuous residence in the parish as far back as the
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Nancy Hughes elaborates on this when she mentions how “villagers divide up their history as they do their geography and their social world into neat oppositional boundaries: all before their patron saint, Brendan, is dark, pagan, and forbidding; all afterward is holy, enlightened, and Christian” (Hughes 81). This quote demonstrates how the villagers look at themselves as outsiders because of what they believe in. It is different than our society because we don’t divide just like the villagers in Ireland do, and that is a factor that doesn’t happen often. In other words, it is uncommon in our society to divide history and geography because they both tie into one another. Another example where Nancy Hughes elaborates on this idea is when she states how “in the highly personalized world of the villager every field and pasture, every spring and well, every rock, hill and resting place is endowed, with a name, a personality, a story and lesson” (Hughes 79-80). This quote reveals how everything in nature is very sacred to the villagers because they feel that those things in nature have value in some way. This is quite interesting because in our society we do not value things like that very often, but to see it be as important in a different culture, that is very extraordinary to see. In comparing Ireland people and their culture to ours, it is very contrast because of how different everything is between the two cultures. They view things one way and we view it differently compared to
Nancy Hughes elaborates on this when she mentions how “villagers divide up their history as they do their geography and their social world into neat oppositional boundaries: all before their patron saint, Brendan, is dark, pagan, and forbidding; all afterward is holy, enlightened, and Christian” (Hughes 81). This quote demonstrates how the villagers look at themselves as outsiders because of what they believe in. It is different than our society because we don’t divide just like the villagers in Ireland do, and that is a factor that doesn’t happen often. In other words, it is uncommon in our society to divide history and geography because they both tie into one another. Another example where Nancy Hughes elaborates on this idea is when she states how “in the highly personalized world of the villager every field and pasture, every spring and well, every rock, hill and resting place is endowed, with a name, a personality, a story and lesson” (Hughes 79-80). This quote reveals how everything in nature is very sacred to the villagers because they feel that those things in nature have value in some way. This is quite interesting because in our society we do not value things like that very often, but to see it be as important in a different culture, that is very extraordinary to see. In comparing Ireland people and their culture to ours, it is very contrast because of how different everything is between the two cultures. They view things one way and we view it differently compared to