John M. Janzen

Gebundenes Buch

Health in a Fragile State

Science, Sorcery, and Spirit in the Lower Congo

Beschreibung

Based on extensive field research in the Manianga region of the Lower Congo, Health in a Fragile State is an anthropological account of public health and health care after the collapse of the Congolese state in the 1980s and 1990s.

Autor

John M. Janzen is a professor emeritus of anthropology at the University of Kansas. He is the author of The Quest for Therapy in Lower Zaire; Lemba, 1650-1930: A Drum of Affliction in Africa and the New World; Ngoma: Discourses of Healing in Central and Southern Africa; and many articles on health, healing, religion, and society in Central Africa and the Atlantic diaspora.

Produktdetails

• Africa and the Diaspora: History, Politics, Culture
• Verlag: University of Wisconsin Press
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Dezember 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 520g
• ISBN-13: 9780299325008
• ISBN-10: 0299325008
• Artikelnr.: 60373051