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[null,null,"Autore",null,"Massé Raymond"]
[null,null,"Titolo",null,"Gadè, deceptions and lies told by the ill : the Caribbean sociocultural construction of truth in patient-healer encounters / / Raymond Massé"]
[null,null,"Pubbl/distr/stampa",null,"Chicoutimi, Quebec : , : J.-M. Tremblay, , 2009"]
[null,null,"ISBN",null,"1-4123-7102-3"]
[null,null,"Descrizione fisica",null,"1 online resource"]
[null,null,"Collana",null,"Classiques des sciences sociales ; ; 3880"]
[null,null,"Disciplina",null,"177.3"]
[null,null,"Soggetti",null,"Truthfulness and falsehood"]
[{"$nulls":4},"Truthfulness and falsehood - History"]
[null,null,"Lingua di pubblicazione",null,"Inglese"]
[null,null,"Formato",null,"Materiale a stampa"]
[null,null,null,"Livello bibliografico","Monografia"]
[null,null,null,"Nota di bibliografia","Includes bibliographical references."]
[null,null,"Nota di contenuto",null,"Introduction : beyond romanticism -- The patient-healer encounter -- The role of lying in client-healer interactions -- The lie in the context of a language-game that makes sense of reality through narratives -- Language and idioms -- The lying-game and acting on the social stage -- Lying and the moral community -- Conclusion -- References."]
[null,null,null,"Sommario/riassunto","A constructivist approach in medical anthropology suggests that the boundary between lies and truth in sickness narratives is thin. Based on fieldwork in the French (Martinique) and English (Saint-Lucia) Carribbean with gadé and quimboiseurs (local folk healers), this paper addresses the gap between naïve romanticism and radical cynicism in the anthropological analysis of patient-healer encounters, Is the sick person lying when she accuses evil spirits for her behaviour or sickness ? Is the quimboiseur who is building a meaningful explanation or diagnosis simply a liar taking advantage of his client's credulity ? The challenge for anthropology is not to determine whether or not a person is lying when attributing their ill fortune to witchcraft. Instead, in this paper, the author approaches lying as a language-game played by both patients and folk healers. Concepts of lying as games, tactical lies, pragmatic creativity, and constructive lies are introduced here as a perspective for a reconsideration of lying as a pertinent research object."]