Research Catalog

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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Details

Description

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

Series Statement

First peoples

Uniform Title

• Project Muse UPCC books.
• First peoples (2010)

Subject

• Social Conditions
• Shamanism
• Anthropology, Cultural > methods
• Delivery of Health Care
• Health Policy
• Health Services, Indigenous
• Indians, South American > ethnology
• Yanomamo Indians > Health and hygiene > Orinoco River Delta
• Yanomamo Indians > Medical care > Orinoco River Delta
• Yanomamo Indians > Orinoco River Delta > Social conditions
• Public health > Orinoco River Delta
• Medical policy > Orinoco River Delta
• Traditional medicine > Orinoco River Delta
• Shamanism > Orinoco River Delta
• Venezuela
• Orinoco River Delta (Venezuela) > Politics and government
• Orinoco River Delta (Venezuela) > Social conditions

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

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.

ISBN

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

LCCN

^^2011034937

OCLC

• 713192633
• SCSB-10465643

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library