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Cosmos, Gods and Madmen : Frameworks in the Anthropologies of Medicine /
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 expl...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , , , , , , , , , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York; Oxford :
Berghahn Books,
[2016]
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: Divinity, Disease, Distress
- Chapter 1 Why Animism Matters
- Chapter 2 Spreading the Gospel of the Miracle Cure: Panama's Black Christ
- Chapter 3 Madness and Miracles: Hoping for Healing in Rural Ghana
- Chapter 4 'Sakawa' Rumours Occult Internet Fraud and Ghanaian Identity
- Chapter 5 To Heal the Body: The Body as Congregation among Post-Surgical Patients in Benin
- Chapter 6 Addiction and the Duality of the Self in a North American Religio- Therapeutic Community
- Chapter 7 Religious Conversion and Madness: Contested Territory in the Peruvian Andes
- Chapter 8 Cosmologies of Fear: The Medicalization of Anxiety in Contemporary Britain
- Chapter 9 Functionalists and Zombis: Sorcery as Spandrel and Social Rescue
- Chapter 10 Religion and Psychosis: A Common Evolutionary Trajectory?
- Index