Problem of Money e-bog
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Based on long-term medical anthropological research in northern Ghana, the author analyses issues of health and healing, of gender, and of the control and use of money in a changing rural African setting. He describes the culture of medical pluralism, so typical for neo-colonial states, and people's choices of "e;traditional"e; (local) medicine (plants and sacrifices), Islamic medicine...
E-bog
273,24 DKK
Forlag
Berghahn Books
Udgivet
1 december 2007
Længde
248 sider
Genrer
1HFDH
Sprog
English
Format
pdf
Beskyttelse
LCP
ISBN
9781782388739
Based on long-term medical anthropological research in northern Ghana, the author analyses issues of health and healing, of gender, and of the control and use of money in a changing rural African setting. He describes the culture of medical pluralism, so typical for neo-colonial states, and people's choices of "e;traditional"e; (local) medicine (plants and sacrifices), Islamic medicine (charms and various written solutions) and "e;modern"e; therapy (biomedicine, in particular western pharmaceuticals). He concludes that the rural-urban divide is a fiction, that demarcations between these areas are frequently blurred, linked by a postcolonial, capitalist discourse of local markets, regional economies and national structures, which frequently emerge in local African settings but often originate in global and multinational markets.