Robert Pool

Dialogue and the Interpretation of Illness (eBook, ePUB)

Conversations in a Cameroon Village

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 298
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. August 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000323276
• Artikelnr.: 60032275

Autorenporträt

Robert Pool London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
First Encounters
Illness, Medicine and Etiology
Witchcraft and tvu
God, the Ancestors and Illness
From Representation to Dialogue in Medical Anthropology