ISBN:
0-391-00389-5
,
978-0-391-00389-7
,
0-485-19552-6
,
978-0-485-19552-1
ISSN:
0077-1074
Language:
English
Pages:
x, 379 Seiten, 6 ungezählte Blätter Bildtafeln
,
Illustrationen
Series Statement:
Monographs on Social Anthropology No. 52
Keywords:
Papua-Neuguinea Ethnie, Neuguinea
;
Kewa
;
Sepik
;
Medizin, traditionelle
;
Anthropologie, medizinische
;
Heilbehandlung
;
Gesundheit
;
Hygiene
;
Folklore
;
Ethnographie
Abstract:
Illness is a matter of concern in every society. Social responses to it depend both on the nature of the illness and on cultural interpretation of its significance. This study of the occurrence, recognition and explanation of illness amongst the Gnau makes use of its author's dual training in medicine and anthropology to show why, how far, and in what respects these people of a forest village in New Guinea turn to their religious and magical knowledge in the distress of illness. The analyis shows how a study of ilness can reveal belief and open an illummatlng and crucial perspective on a society's view of its world.
Description / Table of Contents:
Introduction -- 1. Social structure -- 2. Environment and disease -- 3. The incidence and prevalence of illness -- 4. The recognition of illness -- 5. Classes of cause -- 6. Causality in illness -- 7. The explanation of actual illness -- Conclusion -- Appendix: supplementary medical data -- List of works cited -- Index
Note:
Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 369-370
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