Epidemiology & Biostatistics, Africa - Science & Medicine, Africa - Anthropology & Sociology, Medical Anthropology, Alternative & Complementary Medicine, Africa - African Peoples - West, Alternative Medicine - General & Miscellaneous, Language & Linguisti
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Overview
For thousands of years the fundamental belief in superstition, witchcraft and tribal religion has determined the way in which illness, and its effects, are regarded within native Africa. This study consists of three parts: the first, a medical anthropological exploration of traditional explanations of illness and misfortune; the second, a detailed ethnography of traditional African cosmology and witchcraft, which form the broader context of illness explanations; and thirdly, a reflexive examination of the production of meaning in the process of ethnographic fieldwork and an examination of the possibilities for a dialogical or postmodern anthropology.Book Details
Published
May 11, 1994
Publisher
Oxford [England] ; Berg, 1994.
Pages
298
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
9780854968732