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Dialogue and the Interpretation of Illness
- Conversations in a Cameroon Village
Engelsk
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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
298
ISBN-13:
9781859730164
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
1859730167
Udg. Dato:
11 maj 1994
Længde:
18mm
Bredde:
144mm
Højde:
219mm
Forlag:
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Serie:
Explorations in Anthropology
Oplagsdato:
11 maj 1994
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Dialogue and the Interpretation of Illness

- Conversations in a Cameroon Village
Engelsk
Paperback
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The etiology of the Wimbum people in the Western Grassfields of Cameroon is described through an examination of the way in which the meanings of key concepts, used to interpret and explain illness and other forms of misfortune, are continually being produced and reproduced in the praxis of everyday communication. During the course of numerous dialogues, witchcraft, a highly ambivalent force, gradually emerges as the prime mover. As destructive cannibals or respectable elders the witches are the ultimate cause of all significant illness, misfortune and death, and as diviners they are also the ultimate judges who apportion moral responsibility. Even the ancestors and the traditional gods turn out to be fronts behind which the witches hide their activities.The study is on three levels: a medical anthropological exploration of explanations of illness and misfortune; a detailed ethnography of traditional African cosmology and witchcraft; and an examination of recent theoretical issues in anthropology such as the nature of ethnographic fieldwork and the possibility of dialogical or postmodern ethnography.

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Specifikationer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
298
ISBN-13:
9781859730164
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
1859730167
Udg. Dato:
11 maj 1994
Længde:
18mm
Bredde:
144mm
Højde:
219mm
Forlag:
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Serie:
Explorations in Anthropology
Oplagsdato:
11 maj 1994
Forfatter(e):
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