Research Catalog

Title

A failure of treatment / Gilbert Lewis.

Author

Lewis, Gilbert.

Publication

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2000.

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Description

xx, 269 p. : ill., maps; 25 cm.

Series Statement

Oxford studies in social and cultural anthropology

Uniform Title

Oxford studies in social and cultural anthropology.

Subject

• Anthropology
• Anthropology, Cultural
• Gnau (Papua New Guinean people) > Medicine
• Gnau (Papua New Guinean people) > Social aspects
• Medical anthropology > Sandaun Province
• Papua New Guinea
• Sandaun Province (Papua New Guinea) > Social life and customs
• Traditional medicine > Sandaun Province

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [252]-253) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain
• committed to retain

Contents

1. The Ethnography of an Illness -- 2. Arrival -- 3. The People in a Hamlet: Watalu -- 4. Paths and Gardens -- 5. A Question of Marriage and a Fall -- 6. The Hunting in July and Another Fall -- 7. At the Health Centre -- 8. The Perception of his Illness -- 9. The Opening of Malyi -- 10. Contrasts of Pace: Acute and Chronic -- 11. Imagery without Influence -- 12. Failure yet Belief -- 13. Losing Hope -- 14. The Death of Dauwaras -- 15. The Period of Mourning -- 16. Aftermath.

ISBN

• 0198234082
• 0198234090 (pbk.)

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library