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Body and Affect in the Intercultural Encounter /
The volume draws from René Devisch's encounters with groups in southsaharan Africa, primarily. The author had the privilege to immerse himself, around the clock, in the Yakaphones' activities and thoughts in southwest DR Congo from 1972 to 1974, and intermittently in Kinshasa's shant...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Leiden, The Netherlands :
African Studies Centre,
[2017]
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Preface, Koen Stroeken
- 1. Introduction : the co-implication of anthropologists and their hosts
- part 1. The shock of the multicultural
- 2. The multicentric world : interview / by Jan Van Pelt
- 3. In praise of Jean-Marc Ela, advocate of the people of below
- 4. Frenzy, violence and ethical renewal in Kinshasa
- part 2. Cultural embedding of the body, senses and meaning
- 5. A dancing mask, estranged in the museum
- 6. Affects and senses in healing
- part 3. The moral economy of the intercultural
- 7. Salvation of souls: the Belgian masculine missionary
- 8. Anthropology cataloguing classical African medicine / René Devisch and Mbonyinkebe Sebahire
- 9. Plural health care in Kinshasa / René Devisch, Lapika Dimonfu, Jaak Le Roy and Peter Crossman.