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Social discord and bodily disorders : healing among the Yupno of Papua New Guinea / Verena Keck.
- Title
- Social discord and bodily disorders : healing among the Yupno of Papua New Guinea / Verena Keck.
- Author
- Keck, Verena.
- Publication
- Durham, N.C. : Carolina Academic Press, c2005.
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Details
- Description
- xix, 336 p. : ill., maps; 23 cm.
- Summary
- "Social Discord and Bodily Disorders is a monograph based on two years of field research carried out in collaboration with medical doctors. It explores Yupno conceptions of the link between personal illness and disturbed social relations. Using the sickness and treatment of a small child as a central narrative device, Keck shows how the Yupno chart the onset and course of sickness in relation to imbalances in bodily humors caused by disturbed, burdened social relations. She also compared Yupno ways of diagnosing and treating illness with those of biomedicine - in particular, as these were in evidence in the treatment of the sick child - in order to underscore their specificity and to show how they link to local conceptions of personhood, emotions, and social equilibrium. This book will be of interest for all scholars working in the field of medical anthropology and for a general readership interested in Melanesia and the Pacific."--BOOK JACKET.
- Series Statement
- Carolina Academic Press medical anthropology series
- Uniform Title
- Carolina Academic Press ethnographic studies in medical anthropology series.
- Subject
- Ethnicity > psychology
- Attitude to Health > ethnology
- Medicine, Traditional
- Yupna (Papua New Guinean people) > Diseases
- Yupna (Papua New Guinean people) > Medicine
- Yupna (Papua New Guinean people) > Psychology
- Traditional medicine > Finisterre Range
- Medical anthropology > Finisterre Range
- Ethnopsychology > Finisterre Range
- Yupna (volk)
- Volksgeneeskunde
- Papua New Guinea > ethnology
- Papua New Guinea
- Finisterre Range (Papua New Guinea) > Social conditions
- 8.110
- Genre/Form
- Texts
- Note
- Based on the author's thesis (doctoral)--Universitaet Basel, 1991.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 313-325) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- 1. Introduction -- 2. Gua, the village of little Nstasinge -- 3. The background : the concept of person -- 4. The case study : Nstasinge -- 5. The Yupno medical system : an attempt at systematization -- 6. Conclusion -- 7. Epilogue : years later.
- ISBN
- 0890894043
- 9780890894040
- LCCN
- ^^2003026872
- OCLC
- 53926830
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library