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- catalog abstract ""For thousands of years the fundamental belief in superstition, witchcraft and tribal religion has determined the way in which illness, and its effects, are regarded within native Africa. This study consists of three parts: the first, a medical anthropological exploration of traditional explanations of illness and misfortune; the second, a detailed ethnography of traditional African cosmology and witchcraft, which form the broader context of illness explanations; and thirdly, a reflexive examination of the production of meaning in the process of ethnographic fieldwork and an examination of the possibilities for a dialogical or postmodern anthropology."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b5706888.
- catalog coverage "Tabenken (Cameroon) Social life and customs.".
- catalog created "1994.".
- catalog date "1994".
- catalog date "1994.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1994.".
- catalog description ""For thousands of years the fundamental belief in superstition, witchcraft and tribal religion has determined the way in which illness, and its effects, are regarded within native Africa. This study consists of three parts: the first, a medical anthropological exploration of traditional explanations of illness and misfortune; the second, a detailed ethnography of traditional African cosmology and witchcraft, which form the broader context of illness explanations; and thirdly, a reflexive examination of the production of meaning in the process of ethnographic fieldwork and an examination of the possibilities for a dialogical or postmodern anthropology."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 270-278) and index.".
- catalog extent "xii, 286 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Dialogue and the interpretation of illness.".
- catalog identifier "0854968733 (cloth) :".
- catalog isFormatOf "Dialogue and the interpretation of illness.".
- catalog isPartOf "Explorations in anthropology".
- catalog issued "1994".
- catalog issued "1994.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Oxford [England] ; Providence : Berg,".
- catalog relation "Dialogue and the interpretation of illness.".
- catalog spatial "Cameroon Tabenken.".
- catalog spatial "Cameroon.".
- catalog spatial "Tabenken (Cameroon) Social life and customs.".
- catalog subject "1994 F-256".
- catalog subject "610/.89/9636 20".
- catalog subject "Anthropological linguistics Cameroon Tabenken.".
- catalog subject "Anthropology, Cultural Cameroon.".
- catalog subject "DT555.45.L54 P66 1994".
- catalog subject "Limbum (African people) Diseases.".
- catalog subject "Limbum (African people) Health and hygiene.".
- catalog subject "Limbum (African people) Medicine.".
- catalog subject "Medical anthropology Cameroon Tabenken.".
- catalog subject "Medicine, African Traditional Cameroon.".
- catalog subject "Traditional medicine Cameroon Tabenken.".
- catalog subject "WB 50 HC3 P8d 1994".
- catalog title "Dialogue and the interpretation of illness : conversations in a Cameroon village / Robert Pool.".
- catalog type "text".