Cambridge studies in medical anthropologyseries number 4 questioning misfortune

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Some of the most interesting ethnographies of experience are concerned to highlight the indeterminate nature of life. Questioning Misfortune is very much within this tradition. Based on a long-term study of adversity and its social causes in Bunyole, eastern Uganda, it considers the way in which people deal with uncertainties of life, such as sickness, suffering, marital problems, failure, and death. Divination may identify causes of misfortune, ranging from ancestors and spirits to sorcerers. Sufferers and their families will then try out a variety of remedial measures, including pharmaceuticals, sorcery antidotes, and sacrifices. But remedies often fail, and doubt and uncertainty persist. Even the commercialisation of biomedicine, and the peril of AIDS can be understood in terms of a pragmatics of uncertainty.

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Taal: en

Bindwijze: Hardcover

Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 08 januari 1998

Aantal pagina's: 274

Illustraties: Nee

Hoofdauteur: Susan Reynolds Whyte

Tweede Auteur: Sjaak van der Geest

Co Auteur: Anita Hardon

Hoofdredacteur: Alan Harwood

Hoofduitgeverij: Cambridge University Press

Extra groot lettertype: Nee

Product breedte: 158 mm

Product hoogte: 23 mm

Product lengte: 236 mm

Studieboek: Ja

Verpakking breedte: 158 mm

Verpakking hoogte: 23 mm

Verpakking lengte: 236 mm

Verpakkingsgewicht: 560 g

EAN: 9780521594028

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