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The Land is Dying

Contingency, Creativity and Conflict in Western Kenya

By: Wenzel Geissler,Ruth Jane Prince

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The Land is Dying

Contingency, Creativity and Conflict in Western Kenya

By: Wenzel Geissler,Ruth Jane Prince

This series in medical anthropology publishes monographs and edited volumes on indigenous (so-called traditional) medical knowledge and practice, alternative and complementary medicine, and ethnobiological studies that relate to health and illness. The emphasis of the series is on the way indigenous epistemologies inform healing, against a background of comparison with other practices, and in recognition of the fluidity between them. --

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Berghahn Books

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1845454812

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9781845454814

Medical Anthropology

By: Robert Pool,Wenzel Geissler

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Medical Anthropology

By: Robert Pool,Wenzel Geissler

Medical anthropology is playing an increasingly important role in public health. This book provides an introduction to the basic concepts, approaches and theories used, and shows how these contribute to understanding complex health related behaviour. Public health policies and interventions are more likely to be effective if the beliefs and behaviour of people are understood and taken into account. The book examines: Concepts of culture Medical systems Patient's experience of illness and treatment The use of medicines and healing practices Public health and medical research Examples of particular health problems, such as HIV and malaria, are used to show how an anthropological approach can contribute to both a better understanding of health and illness and to more culturally compatible public health measures. Series Editors: Rosalind Plowman and Nicki Thorogood.

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McGraw-Hill Education (UK)

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033522749X

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9780335227495

Medical Anthropology

By: Pool, Robert,Geissler, Wenzel

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Medical Anthropology

By: Pool, Robert,Geissler, Wenzel

This book provides an introduction to the basic concepts, approaches and theories used, and shows how these contribute to understanding complex health related behaviour. Public health policies and interventions are more likely to be effective if the beliefs and behaviour of people are understood and taken into account.

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0335218504

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9780335218509

The Land Is Dying

Contingency, Creativity and Conflict in Western Kenya

By: Paul Wenzel Geissler,Ruth Jane Prince

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Contingency, Creativity and Conflict in Western Kenya

By: Paul Wenzel Geissler,Ruth Jane Prince

Based on several years of ethnographic fieldwork, the book explores life in and around a Luo-speaking village in western Kenya during a time of death. The epidemic of HIV/AIDS affects every aspect of sociality and pervades villagers' debates about the past, the future and the ethics of everyday life. Central to such debates is a discussion of touch in the broad sense of concrete, material contact between persons. In mundane practices and in ritual acts, touch is considered to be key to the creation of bodily life as well as social continuity. Underlying the significance of material contact is its connection with growth – of persons and groups, animals, plants and the land – and the forward movement of life more generally. Under the pressure of illness and death, economic hardship and land scarcity, as well as bitter struggles about the relevance and application of Christianity and ‘Luo tradition’ in daily life, people find it difficult to agree about the role of touch in engendering growth, or indeed about the aims of growth itself.

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1845458028

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