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Biomedical Entanglements : Conceptions of Personhood in a Papua New Guinea Society.
Biomedical Entanglements is an ethnographic study of the Giri people of Papua New Guinea, focusing on the Indigenous population's interaction with modern medicine. In her fieldwork, Franziska A. Herbst follows the Giri people as they circulate within and around ethnographic sites that include a...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York, NY :
Berghahn Books,
2016.
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| Colección: | Person, space and memory in the contemporary Pacific.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Biomedical Entanglements; Contents; Maps, Figures, and Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Language Notes and Conventions; Abbreviations; Introduction; Chapter One. Ethnography and the Fieldwork Setting; Chapter Two. Bunapas Health Center; Chapter Three. Technologies of Disenchantment; Chapter Four. The Web of Care Relationships; Chapter Five. Ingenious Women; Conclusion; Glossary; References; Index.