Knowledge of Illness in a Sepik Society : A Study of the Gnau, New Guinea Volume 52

ISBN-13: 9781845203047 / Angielski / Twarda / 1975 / 402 str.

Gilbert Lewis

Opis

Illness is a matter of concern in every society. This study of the occurrence, recognition and explanation of illness amongst the Gnau makes use of its author's dual training in medicine and anthropology to show why, and in what respects these people of a forest village turn to their religious and magical knowledge in the distress of illness.

Spis treści

CONTENTS INTRODUCTION I 1. SOCIAL STRUCTURE 9 2. ENVIRONMENT AND DISEASE 41 3. THE INCIDENCE AND PREVALENCE OF ILLNESS 95 4. THE RECOGNITION OF ILLNESS 128 5. CLASSES OF CAUSE 154 6. CAUSALITY IN ILLNESS 195 7. THE EXPLANATION OF ACTUAL ILLNESS 229 CONCLUSION 331 APPENDIX: SUPPLEMENTARY MEDICAL DATA 361 LIST OF WORKS CITED 369INDEX 371

O autorze

Dr Lewis, MD, MRCP, is Lecturer in Social Anthropology at the University of Cambridge.