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Dialogue and the interpretation of illness : conversations in a Cameroon village / Robert Pool.

Title: Dialogue and the interpretation of illness : conversations in a Cameroon village / Robert Pool.
Author: Pool, Robert.
Publication: Oxford [England] ; Providence : Berg, 1994.

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xii, 286 p. : ill., maps; 23 cm.

Summary

"For thousands of years the fundamental belief in superstition, witchcraft and tribal religion has determined the way in which illness, and its effects, are regarded within native Africa. This study consists of three parts: the first, a medical anthropological exploration of traditional explanations of illness and misfortune; the second, a detailed ethnography of traditional African cosmology and witchcraft, which form the broader context of illness explanations; and thirdly, a reflexive examination of the production of meaning in the process of ethnographic fieldwork and an examination of the possibilities for a dialogical or postmodern anthropology."--Jacket.

Series Statement

Explorations in anthropology

Uniform Title

Explorations in anthropology.

Subject

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. 270-278) and index.

Processing Action (note)

committed to retain

Contents

1. First Encounters -- 2. Background, Setting and Presentation -- 3. Malnutrition, Ngang and Twins -- 4. Abominations, Bad Death and Bfaa -- 5. Illness, Medicine and Etiology -- 6. Witches, Cannibals and Seers -- 7. Illnesses of God and Illnesses of People -- 8. The Ancestors and Illness -- 9. From Representation to Dialogue in Medical -- Epilogue: Lawrence's Departure.

ISBN

0854968733 (cloth) :
0859730167 (paper) (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

^^^93004290^

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Harvard Library