ISBN:
0-12-456350-3
,
978-0-12-456350-6
ISSN:
0567-414X
Language:
English
Pages:
xxv, 600 Seiten
,
Illustrationen
Series Statement:
ASA Monographs 13
Keywords:
Anthropologie, soziale Anthropologie, medizinische
;
Kulturanthropologie
;
Medizin, traditionelle
;
Heilbehandlung
;
Gesundheit
;
Heiler
;
Heiler, weiblich
;
Neuguinea
;
Hausa
;
Yoruba
;
Zulu
;
Afrika
;
Sambia
;
Sumatra
;
Nepal
;
Songhai
;
Indianer, Brasilien
;
Tagungsbericht
Description / Table of Contents:
Editor's preface -- Meyer Fortes: Foreword -- J. B. Loudon: Introduction -- Gilbert Lewis: A View of sickness in New Guinea -- Murray Last: The Presentation of sickness in a community of non-Muslim Hausa -- Ruth Caro Salzberger: Cancer: assumptions and reality concerning delay, ignorance and fear -- Vieda Skultans: Empathy and healing: aspects of spiritualist ritual -- Ronald Frankenberg and Joyce Leeson: Disease, illness and sickness: social aspects of the choice of healer in a Lusaka suburb -- M. A. Jaspan: Health and illth in Highland South Sumatra -- Una Maclean: Some aspects of sickness behaviour among the Yoruba -- Harriet Ngubane: Some aspects of treatment among the Zulu --Eva Gillies: Causal criteria in African classifications of disease -- Anthony D. Buckley: The Secret - an idea in Yoruba medicinal thought -- Audrey Butt Colson: Binary oppositions and the treatment of sickness among the Akawaio -- N. J. Allen: Approaches to illness in the Nepalese hills -- Jeanne Bisilliat: Village diseases and bush diseases in Songhay: an essay in description and classification with a view to a typology, translated from the French by J. B. London -- Index of names
Note:
Enthält eine Einführung und 13 Beiträge"This volume derives mainly from material presented at a conference on social anthropology and medicine, sponsored by the Association of Social Anthropologists of the Commonwealth, held at the University of Kent at Canterbury, 5-8 April 1972." (Rückseite des Titelblattes)
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