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Dialogue and the Interpretation of Illness: Conversations in a Cameroon Village (Explorations in Anthropology) - Softcover

Buch 19 von 42: Explorations in Anthropology

Pool, Robert

 
9781859730164: Dialogue and the Interpretation of Illness: Conversations in a Cameroon Village (Explorations in Anthropology)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1859730167 ISBN 13: 9781859730164
Verlag: Routledge, 1994

Inhaltsangabe

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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Robert Pool London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

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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.

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Verlag
Routledge
Erscheinungsdatum
1994
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1859730167
ISBN 13 
9781859730164
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Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
298
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