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State healthcare and Yanomami transformations : a symmetrical ethnography

Title: State healthcare and Yanomami transformations : a symmetrical ethnography / José Antonio Kelly.
Author: Kelly, José Antonio.
Publication: Tucson : University of Arizona Press, c2011.

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Description

xvii, 255 p. : ill., maps; 24 cm.

Series Statement

First peoples : new directions in indigenous studies

Uniform Title

First peoples (2010)

Subjects

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

The upper Orinoco Yanomami and their context -- Particularizing the Upper Orinoco health system -- Epidemic diseases, Criollos, and the morality of being human -- Becoming Napë and the Napë transformational axis -- Making kin, making society, and Napë potential affinity -- Being and performing Napë and Yanomami -- Doctors and shamans -- Two meetings and a protest -- Changing tides and mixed feelings.

Call Number

JFE 12-2348

ISBN

9780816529209 (hard cover : alk. paper)
0816529205 (hard cover : alk. paper)

LCCN

2011034937

OCLC

YBP 2011034937

Author

Kelly, José Antonio.

Title

State healthcare and Yanomami transformations : a symmetrical ethnography / José Antonio Kelly.

Imprint

Tucson : University of Arizona Press, c2011.

Series

First peoples : new directions in indigenous studies

First peoples (2010)

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Research Call Number

JFE 12-2348

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