Patients, Doctors and Healers

Medical Worlds among the Mapuche in Southern Chile

Inbunden, Engelska, 2019

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Recognizing the interplay between biomedicine and indigenous medicine among the Mapuche in Southern Chile, this book explores notions of culture and personhood through the bodily experiences and medical choices of patients.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2019-01-23
Mått148 x 210 x 18 mm
Vikt428 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor228
FörlagSpringer International Publishing AG
ISBN9783319970301

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Sociologi inom Samhälle och politik
Antropologi inom Samhälle och politik
Människans biologi inom Naturvetenskap och teknik

1. Illness Stories, Medical Choices and Socio-Political Process.- 2. The History, Culture and Politics of Chile.- 3. Complex Illnesses and Complementary Cures.- 4. Indigenous Disease Categories, Medical Dialogues and Social Positions.- 5. Being Mapuche in Modern Chile: Illness Experiences, Medical Choices and Social Positions.- 6. Uncanny Memories, Violence and Indigenous Medicine.- 7. The Shaman, the Virgin and the Taxation Authorities.- 8. Conclusion: The Control of Medicine, the Control of Bodies.

“The book is a good and timely contribution to the ethnographic study of Mapuche medical practices and medical pluralism in Chile. It will be greatly enjoyed by social scientists working on indigenous issues both in Chile and Latin America, as well as by medical anthropologists working on medical pluralism, therapeutic efficacies, postcolonialism, and indigenous medicine and witchcraft practices within modern nation-states.” (Adelaida Barros Cajdler, Anthropos, Vol. 115 (1), 2020)