| Description |
xii, 286 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm |
| Series |
Explorations in anthropology |
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Explorations in anthropology.
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| Contents |
Machine derived contents note: Introduction -- First Encounters -- Illness, Medicine and Etiology -- Witchcraft and tvu -- God, the Ancestors and Illness -- From Representation to Dialogue in Medical Anthropology |
| Summary |
"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."--Jacket |
| Analysis |
Cameroon |
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Medicine Sociology |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 270-278) and index |
| Subject |
Anthropological linguistics -- Cameroon -- Tabenken.
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Limbum (African people) -- Diseases.
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Limbum (African people) -- Health and hygiene.
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Limbum (African people) -- Medicine.
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Medical anthropology -- Cameroon -- Tabenken.
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Traditional medicine -- Cameroon -- Tabenken.
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Medicine, African Traditional.
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Anthropology, Cultural.
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| SUBJECT |
Tabenken (Cameroon) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n93035139 -- Social life and customs. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2001008851
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Cameroon. https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D002163 |
| LC no. |
93004290 |
| ISBN |
0854968733 (cloth) |
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(paper) |
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