1st Edition
Dialogue and the Interpretation of Illness Conversations in a Cameroon Village
By Robert Pool
Copyright 1994
298 Pages
by
Routledge
298 Pages
by
Routledge
298 Pages
by
Routledge
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The etiology of the Wimbum people in the Western Grassfields of Cameroon is described through an examination of the way in which the meanings of key concepts, used to interpret and explain illness and other forms of misfortune, are continually being produced and reproduced in the praxis of everyday communication. During the course of numerous dialogues, witchcraft, a highly ambivalent force,... Read more
*Introduction*First Encounters*Illness, Medicine and Etiology*Witchcraft and tvu*God, the Ancestors and Illness*From Representation to Dialogue in Medical Anthropology
Biography
Robert Pool London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
