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Evil in Africa : encounters with the everyday / / edited by William C. Olsen & Walter E. A. van Beek ; foreword by David Parkin
| Evil in Africa : encounters with the everyday / / edited by William C. Olsen & Walter E. A. van Beek ; foreword by David Parkin |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Bloomington : , : Indiana University Press, , [2016] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (405 p.) |
| Disciplina | 170.96 |
| Soggetto topico |
Good and evil
Good and evil - Social aspects - Africa |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN | 0-253-01750-5 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Introduction: African notions of evil : the chimera of justice / Walter E. A. van Beek and William C. Olsen -- Political evil : witchcraft from the perspective of the bewitched / Sonia Silva -- Untying wrongs in northern Uganda / Susan Reynolds Whyte, Lotte Meinert, Julaina Obika -- The evil of insecurity in South Sudan : violence and impunity in Africa's newest state / Jok Madut Jok -- Genocide, evil, and human agency : the concept of evil in Rwandan explanations of the 1994 genocide / Jennie E. Burnet -- Politics and cosmographic anxiety : Kongo and Dagbon compared / Wyatt MacGaffey -- Ambivalence and the work of the negative among the Yaka / Rene Devisch -- Aze and the incommensurable / Leocadie Ekoue with Judy Rosenthal -- Evil and the art of revenge in the Mandara Mountains / Walter E. A. van Beek -- Distinctions in the imagination of harm in contemporary Mijikenda thought : the existential challenge of Majini / Diane Ciekawy -- Haunted by absent others : movements of evil in a Nigerian city / Ulrika Trovalla -- Attributions of evil among Haalpulaaren, Senegal / Roy Dilley -- Reflections regarding good and evil : the complexity of words in Zanzibar / Kjersti Larsen -- Constructing moral personhood : the moral test in Tuareg sociability as a commentary on honor and dishonor / Susan J. Rasmussen -- The gender of evil : Maasai experiences and expressions / Dorothy L. Hodgson -- Neocannibalism, military biopolitics, and the problem of human evil / Nancy Scheper-Hughes -- Theft and evil in Asante / William C. Olsen -- Sorcery after socialism : liberalization and antiwitchcraft practices in southern Tanzania / Maia Green -- Transatlantic Pentecostal demons in Maputo / Linda van de Kamp -- The meaning of "apartheid" and the epistemology of evil / Adam Ashforth. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910460941303321 |
| Bloomington : , : Indiana University Press, , [2016] | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Evil in Africa : encounters with the everyday / / edited by William C. Olsen & Walter E. A. van Beek ; foreword by David Parkin
| Evil in Africa : encounters with the everyday / / edited by William C. Olsen & Walter E. A. van Beek ; foreword by David Parkin |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Bloomington : , : Indiana University Press, , [2016] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (405 p.) |
| Disciplina | 170.96 |
| Soggetto topico |
Good and evil
Good and evil - Social aspects - Africa |
| ISBN | 0-253-01750-5 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Introduction: African notions of evil : the chimera of justice / Walter E. A. van Beek and William C. Olsen -- Political evil : witchcraft from the perspective of the bewitched / Sonia Silva -- Untying wrongs in northern Uganda / Susan Reynolds Whyte, Lotte Meinert, Julaina Obika -- The evil of insecurity in South Sudan : violence and impunity in Africa's newest state / Jok Madut Jok -- Genocide, evil, and human agency : the concept of evil in Rwandan explanations of the 1994 genocide / Jennie E. Burnet -- Politics and cosmographic anxiety : Kongo and Dagbon compared / Wyatt MacGaffey -- Ambivalence and the work of the negative among the Yaka / Rene Devisch -- Aze and the incommensurable / Leocadie Ekoue with Judy Rosenthal -- Evil and the art of revenge in the Mandara Mountains / Walter E. A. van Beek -- Distinctions in the imagination of harm in contemporary Mijikenda thought : the existential challenge of Majini / Diane Ciekawy -- Haunted by absent others : movements of evil in a Nigerian city / Ulrika Trovalla -- Attributions of evil among Haalpulaaren, Senegal / Roy Dilley -- Reflections regarding good and evil : the complexity of words in Zanzibar / Kjersti Larsen -- Constructing moral personhood : the moral test in Tuareg sociability as a commentary on honor and dishonor / Susan J. Rasmussen -- The gender of evil : Maasai experiences and expressions / Dorothy L. Hodgson -- Neocannibalism, military biopolitics, and the problem of human evil / Nancy Scheper-Hughes -- Theft and evil in Asante / William C. Olsen -- Sorcery after socialism : liberalization and antiwitchcraft practices in southern Tanzania / Maia Green -- Transatlantic Pentecostal demons in Maputo / Linda van de Kamp -- The meaning of "apartheid" and the epistemology of evil / Adam Ashforth. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910797632903321 |
| Bloomington : , : Indiana University Press, , [2016] | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Evil in Africa : encounters with the everyday / / edited by William C. Olsen & Walter E. A. van Beek ; foreword by David Parkin
| Evil in Africa : encounters with the everyday / / edited by William C. Olsen & Walter E. A. van Beek ; foreword by David Parkin |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Bloomington : , : Indiana University Press, , [2016] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (405 p.) |
| Disciplina | 170.96 |
| Soggetto topico |
Good and evil
Good and evil - Social aspects - Africa |
| ISBN | 0-253-01750-5 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Introduction: African notions of evil : the chimera of justice / Walter E. A. van Beek and William C. Olsen -- Political evil : witchcraft from the perspective of the bewitched / Sonia Silva -- Untying wrongs in northern Uganda / Susan Reynolds Whyte, Lotte Meinert, Julaina Obika -- The evil of insecurity in South Sudan : violence and impunity in Africa's newest state / Jok Madut Jok -- Genocide, evil, and human agency : the concept of evil in Rwandan explanations of the 1994 genocide / Jennie E. Burnet -- Politics and cosmographic anxiety : Kongo and Dagbon compared / Wyatt MacGaffey -- Ambivalence and the work of the negative among the Yaka / Rene Devisch -- Aze and the incommensurable / Leocadie Ekoue with Judy Rosenthal -- Evil and the art of revenge in the Mandara Mountains / Walter E. A. van Beek -- Distinctions in the imagination of harm in contemporary Mijikenda thought : the existential challenge of Majini / Diane Ciekawy -- Haunted by absent others : movements of evil in a Nigerian city / Ulrika Trovalla -- Attributions of evil among Haalpulaaren, Senegal / Roy Dilley -- Reflections regarding good and evil : the complexity of words in Zanzibar / Kjersti Larsen -- Constructing moral personhood : the moral test in Tuareg sociability as a commentary on honor and dishonor / Susan J. Rasmussen -- The gender of evil : Maasai experiences and expressions / Dorothy L. Hodgson -- Neocannibalism, military biopolitics, and the problem of human evil / Nancy Scheper-Hughes -- Theft and evil in Asante / William C. Olsen -- Sorcery after socialism : liberalization and antiwitchcraft practices in southern Tanzania / Maia Green -- Transatlantic Pentecostal demons in Maputo / Linda van de Kamp -- The meaning of "apartheid" and the epistemology of evil / Adam Ashforth. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910806214203321 |
| Bloomington : , : Indiana University Press, , [2016] | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The work of hospitals : global medicine in local cultures / / edited by William C. Olsen and Carolyn Sargent
| The work of hospitals : global medicine in local cultures / / edited by William C. Olsen and Carolyn Sargent |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | New Brunswick : , : Rutgers University Press, , [2022] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (271 pages) |
| Disciplina | 362.1 |
| Soggetto topico | World health |
| Soggetto non controllato | Peru, Ethiopia, Congo, Ghana, Uganda, Benin, Guatemala, Tanzania, Mexico, France, The US, Greece, Pakistan, meidcine, hospitals |
| ISBN | 1-9788-2307-X |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part One. Global Medicines in Local Cultures -- Chapter 1 Global Health Goals and Local Constraints in a Rural Peruvian Clinic -- Chapter 2 Science and Sanctity: Biomedicine and Christianity at an Ethiopian Hospital -- Chapter 3 The Cosmopolitan Hospital -- Chapter 4 “Dangerous Disease” Epilepsy in Asante -- Chapter 5 The Salience of the State in Biomedicine: Congo and Uganda Cases Compared -- Part Two. Care Giving and Hospital Labor -- Chapter 6 Creating a Therapeutic Community: Lessons from Allada Hospital Benin -- Chapter 7 Medical “Errands” among Women with Cervical Cancer in Guatemala -- Chapter 8 Routinized Caring or a “Call” to Nursing: Shifts in Hospital Nursing in Rukwa, Tanzania -- Chapter 9 “We Work with What We Have, Not with What We Would Like to Have” Hospital Care in Mexico -- Part Three. Hospitals and the Patient -- Chapter 10 The Navigation of Public Hospitals by West African Immigrants with Cancer in Paris, France -- Chapter 11 Each Child Is Unique: The Responsible U.S. Parent’s Take on Hospital Care Gone Wrong -- Chapter 12 Making Ethnographic Sense of Cesarean Rates in Greek Public Hospitals -- Chapter 13 The Nightside of Medicine: Obstetric Suffering and Ethnographic Witnessing in a Pakistani Hospital -- Afterword -- References -- Notes on Contributors -- Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910795677503321 |
| New Brunswick : , : Rutgers University Press, , [2022] | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The work of hospitals : global medicine in local cultures / / edited by William C. Olsen and Carolyn Sargent
| The work of hospitals : global medicine in local cultures / / edited by William C. Olsen and Carolyn Sargent |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | New Brunswick : , : Rutgers University Press, , [2022] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (271 pages) |
| Disciplina | 362.1 |
| Soggetto topico | World health |
| Soggetto non controllato | Peru, Ethiopia, Congo, Ghana, Uganda, Benin, Guatemala, Tanzania, Mexico, France, The US, Greece, Pakistan, meidcine, hospitals |
| ISBN | 1-9788-2307-X |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part One. Global Medicines in Local Cultures -- Chapter 1 Global Health Goals and Local Constraints in a Rural Peruvian Clinic -- Chapter 2 Science and Sanctity: Biomedicine and Christianity at an Ethiopian Hospital -- Chapter 3 The Cosmopolitan Hospital -- Chapter 4 “Dangerous Disease” Epilepsy in Asante -- Chapter 5 The Salience of the State in Biomedicine: Congo and Uganda Cases Compared -- Part Two. Care Giving and Hospital Labor -- Chapter 6 Creating a Therapeutic Community: Lessons from Allada Hospital Benin -- Chapter 7 Medical “Errands” among Women with Cervical Cancer in Guatemala -- Chapter 8 Routinized Caring or a “Call” to Nursing: Shifts in Hospital Nursing in Rukwa, Tanzania -- Chapter 9 “We Work with What We Have, Not with What We Would Like to Have” Hospital Care in Mexico -- Part Three. Hospitals and the Patient -- Chapter 10 The Navigation of Public Hospitals by West African Immigrants with Cancer in Paris, France -- Chapter 11 Each Child Is Unique: The Responsible U.S. Parent’s Take on Hospital Care Gone Wrong -- Chapter 12 Making Ethnographic Sense of Cesarean Rates in Greek Public Hospitals -- Chapter 13 The Nightside of Medicine: Obstetric Suffering and Ethnographic Witnessing in a Pakistani Hospital -- Afterword -- References -- Notes on Contributors -- Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910815954203321 |
| New Brunswick : , : Rutgers University Press, , [2022] | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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