State Healthcare and Yanomami Transformations : A Symmetrical Ethnography.
Material type:
- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9780816502868
- Medical policy-Venezuela-Orinoco River Delta
- Public health-Venezuela-Orinoco River Delta
- Shamanism-Venezuela-Orinoco River Delta
- Traditional medicine-Venezuela-Orinoco River Delta
- Yanomamo Indians-Health and hygiene-Venezuela-Orinoco River Delta
- Yanomamo Indians-Medical care-Venezuela-Orinoco River Delta
- Yanomamo Indians-Venezuela-Orinoco River Delta-Social conditions
- Orinoco River Delta (Venezuela)-Politics and government
- Orinoco River Delta (Venezuela)-Social conditions
- 362.10987
- F2520
Intro -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1. The Upper Orinoco Yanomami and Their Context -- 2. Particularizing the Upper Orinoco Health System -- 3. Epidemic Diseases, Criollos, and the Morality of Being Human -- 4. Becoming Napë and the Napë Transformational Axis -- 5. Making Kin, Making Society, and Napë Potential Affinity -- 6. Being and Performing Napë and Yanomami -- 7. Doctors and Shamans -- 8. Two Meetings and a Protest -- 9. Changing Tides and Mixed Feelings -- Conclusion.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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