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State healthcare and Yanomami transformations a symmetrical ethnography

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

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Description
1 online resource (xvii, 255 p.) : ill., maps.
Uniform Title
  • State healthcare and Yanomami transformations (Online)
  • First peoples (2010)
Alternative Title
State healthcare and Yanomami transformations (Online)
Subject
  • Yanomamo Indians > Health and hygiene > Venezuela > Orinoco River Delta
  • Yanomamo Indians > Medical care > Venezuela > Orinoco River Delta
  • Yanomamo Indians > Venezuela > Orinoco River Delta > Social conditions
  • Public health > Venezuela > Orinoco River Delta
  • Medical policy > Venezuela > Orinoco River Delta
  • Traditional medicine > Venezuela > Orinoco River Delta
  • Shamanism > Venezuela > Orinoco River Delta
  • Orinoco River Delta (Venezuela) > Politics and government
  • Orinoco River Delta (Venezuela) > Social conditions
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
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  • Access restricted to authorized users.
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.
LCCN
2011034937
OCLC
ssj0000818768
Author
Kelly, José Antonio.
Title
State healthcare and Yanomami transformations [electronic resource] : a symmetrical ethnography / José Antonio Kelly.
Imprint
Tucson : University of Arizona Press, c2011.
Series
First peoples (2010)
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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Available onsite at NYPL
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