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COSMOS, GODS AND MADMEN
FRAMEWORKS IN THE ANTHROPOLOGIES OF MEDICINE |
| By: |
Roland Littlewood (Editor), Rebecca Lynch (Editor) |
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Hardback |
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£99.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1785331779 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781785331770 |
| Publisher: |
BERGHAHN BOOKS |
| Pub. date: |
30 June, 2016 |
| Pages: |
220 |
| Description: |
The social anthropology of sickness and health has always been concerned with religious cosmologies. The chapters cover a range of ethnographic areas and examine notions of personhood, agency, uncertainty and control among other questions. |
| Synopsis: |
The social anthropology of sickness and health has always been concerned with religious cosmologies: how societies make sense of such issues as prediction and control of misfortune and fate; the malevolence of others; the benevolence (or otherwise) of the mystical world; local understanding and explanations of the natural and ultra-human worlds. This volume presents differing categorizations and conflicts that occur as people seek to make sense of suffering and their experiences. Cosmologies, whether incorporating the divine or as purely secular, lead us to interpret human action and the human constitution, its ills and its healing and, in particular, ways which determine and limit our very possibilities. |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Berghahn Books |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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