State healthcare and Yanomami transformations : a symmetrical ethnography

State healthcare and Yanomami transformations : a symmetrical ethnography / José Antonio Kelly.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kelly, José Antonio
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Tucson : University of Arizona Press, ©2011.
Series:First peoples (2010)
Subjects:
Yanomamo Indians > Health and hygiene > Venezuela > Orinoco River Delta.
Yanomamo Indians > Medical care > Venezuela > Orinoco River Delta.
Yanomamo Indians > Venezuela > Orinoco River Delta > Social conditions.
Public health > Venezuela > Orinoco River Delta.
Medical policy > Venezuela > Orinoco River Delta.
Traditional medicine > Venezuela > Orinoco River Delta.
Shamanism > Venezuela > Orinoco River Delta.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
Medical policy
Politics and government
Public health
Shamanism
Social conditions
Traditional medicine
Yanomamo Indians > Health and hygiene
Yanomamo Indians > Medical care
Yanomamo Indians > Social conditions
Orinoco River Delta (Venezuela) > Politics and government.
Orinoco River Delta (Venezuela) > Social conditions.
Venezuela > Orinoco River Delta
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Table of Contents:
  • The upper Orinoco Yanomami and their context
  • Particularizing the Upper Orinoco health system
  • Epidemic diseases, Criollos, and the morality of being human
  • Becoming Napë and the Napë transformational axis
  • Making kin, making society, and Napë potential affinity
  • Being and performing Napë and Yanomami
  • Doctors and Shamans
  • Two meetings and a protest
  • Changing tides and mixed feelings.

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