Social discord and bodily disorders : healing among the Yupno of Papua New Guinea / Verena Keck.
Social discord and bodily disorders : healing among the Yupno of Papua New Guinea / Verena Keck.
Social discord and bodily disorders : healing among the Yupno of Papua New Guinea / Verena Keck.
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Durham, N.C. : Carolina Academic Press, c2005.
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615.88089/1
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English
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xix, 336 p. : ill., ports. 23 cm.
Contents
1. Introduction -- 2. Gua, the village of little Nstasinge -- 3. The background : the concept of person -- 4. The case study : Nstasinge -- 5. The Yupno medical system : an attempt at systematization -- 6. Conclusion -- 7. Epilogue : years later.
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Durham, N.C. : Carolina Academic Press, c2005.
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North Carolina
Date Published
c2005.
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"Social Discord and Bodily Disorders is a monograph based on two years of field research carried out in collaboration with medical doctors. It explores Yupno conceptions of the link between personal illness and disturbed social relations. Using the sickness and treatment of a small child as a central narrative device, Keck shows how the Yupno chart...
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Social discord and bodily disorders : healing among the Yupno of Papua New Guinea / Verena Keck.
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Based on the author's thesis (doctoral)--Universitaet Basel, 1991.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 313-325) and index.
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615.88089/1
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74VKDBlq2xPd
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0890894043
9780890894040
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615.880899912
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991019135199702626
