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Social Discord and Bodily Disorders: Healing Among the Yupno of Papua New Guinea (Ethnographic Studies in Medical Anthropology)
Social Discord and Bodily Disorders Healing Among the Yupno of Papua New Guinea - Ethnographic Studies in Medical Anthropology
Author: Verena Keck, Pamela J. Stewart
This monograph, which is based on two years of field research carried out in collaboration with medical doctors, explores Yupno conceptions of the link between personal illness and disturbed social relations. Using the sickness and treatment of a small child as a central narrative device, Keck shows how the Yupno chart the onset and course of si...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780890894040
ISBN-10: 0890894043
Publication Date: 5/30/2005
Pages: 360
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Publisher: Carolina Academic Press
Book Type: Paperback
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