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UNINA9910815809903321 |
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Titolo |
Cosmos, gods and madmen : frameworks in the anthropologies of medicine / / edited by Roland Littlewood and Rebecca Lynch |
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New York ; ; Oxford, [England] : , : Berghahn, , 2016 |
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©2016 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (220 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Medical anthropology |
Medicine - Religious aspects |
Cosmology |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Intro; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Chapter 1. Why Animism Matters; Chapter 2. Spreading the Gospel of the Miracle Cure; Chapter 3. Madness and Miracles; Chapter 4. 'Sakawa' Rumours ; Chapter 5. To Heal the Body; Chapter 6. Addiction and the Duality of the Self in a North American Religio-Therapeutic Community; Chapter 7. Religious Conversion and Madness; Chapter 8. Cosmologies of Fear; Chapter 9. Functionalists and Zombis ; Chapter 10. Religion and Psychosis; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 explanations of the natural and ultra-human worlds. This volume presents differing categorizations and conflicts that occur as people seek to make sense of suffering and their experiences. Cosmologies, whether incorporating the divine or as purely secular, lead us to interpret human action and the human constitution, its ills and its healing and, in particular, ways which determine and limit our very possibilities. |
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