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Książka Questioning Misfortune Susan Reynolds (University of Copenhagen) Whyte

Questioning Misfortune

The Pragmatics of Uncertainty in Eastern Uganda

Autor: Susan Reynolds (University of Copenhagen) Whyte
Język: Angielski
Oprawa: Miękka
Wydawca: Cambridge University Press
Dostępność: Dostępna u dostawcy
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227.26 zł
Some of the most interesting ethnographies of experience are concerned to highlight the indeterminat...

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Autor
Susan Reynolds (University of Copenhagen) Whyte
Język
Angielski
Oprawa
Książka - Miękka
Data wydania
1998
strony
274
EAN
9780521595582
ISBN
0521595584
Enbook ID
02036823
Wydawca
Cambridge University Press
Waga
550
Wymiary
153 x 229 x 14

Pełny opis

Some of the most interesting ethnographies of experience are concerned to highlight the indeterminate nature of life. Questioning Misfortune is very much within this tradition. Based on a long-term study of adversity and its social causes in Bunyole, eastern Uganda, it considers the way in which people deal with uncertainties of life, such as sickness, suffering, marital problems, failure, and death. Divination may identify causes of misfortune, ranging from ancestors and spirits to sorcerers. Sufferers and their families will then try out a variety of remedial measures, including pharmaceuticals, sorcery antidotes, and sacrifices. But remedies often fail, and doubt and uncertainty persist. Even the commercialisation of biomedicine, and the peril of AIDS can be understood in terms of a pragmatics of uncertainty.

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