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Questioning Misfortune

The Pragmatics of Uncertainty in Eastern Uganda

Autor: Susan Reynolds (University of Copenhagen) Whyte
Jazyk: Angličtina
Vazba: Brožovaná
Vydavatel: Cambridge University Press
Dostupnost: Skladem u dodavatele
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1 232 Kč
Some of the most interesting ethnographies of experience are concerned to highlight the indeterminat...

Informace o knize

Autor
Susan Reynolds (University of Copenhagen) Whyte
Jazyk
Angličtina
Vazba
Kniha - Brožovaná
Vydáno
1998
Stránek
274
EAN
9780521595582
ISBN
0521595584
Enbook ID
02036823
Vydavatel
Cambridge University Press
Hmotnost
550
Rozměry
153 x 229 x 14

Kompletní popis

Some of the most interesting ethnographies of experience are concerned to highlight the indeterminate nature of life. Questioning Misfortune is very much within this tradition. Based on a long-term study of adversity and its social causes in Bunyole, eastern Uganda, it considers the way in which people deal with uncertainties of life, such as sickness, suffering, marital problems, failure, and death. Divination may identify causes of misfortune, ranging from ancestors and spirits to sorcerers. Sufferers and their families will then try out a variety of remedial measures, including pharmaceuticals, sorcery antidotes, and sacrifices. But remedies often fail, and doubt and uncertainty persist. Even the commercialisation of biomedicine, and the peril of AIDS can be understood in terms of a pragmatics of uncertainty.

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