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Dis-ease in the colonial state : medicine, society, and social change among the AbaNyole of Western Kenya / Osaak A. Olumwullah.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Olumwullah, Osaak A., 1957-
- Series:
- Contributions in medical studies ; no. 47.
- Contributions in medical studies ; no. 47
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Medicine--Kenya--Bunyore--History.
- Medicine.
- Nyore (Kenyan people)--Health and hygiene.
- Nyore (Kenyan people).
- Imperialism--Health aspects.
- Imperialism.
- Traditional medicine--Kenya--Bunyore.
- Traditional medicine.
- Social medicine--Kenya--Bunyore.
- Social medicine.
- History.
- Kenya--Bunyore.
- Physical Description:
- x, 323 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Other Title:
- Disease in the colonial state
- Place of Publication:
- Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2002.
- Contents:
- Chapter 1 Introduction: Health and Healing in Twentieth-Century African History 1
- Chapter 2 The AbaNyole of Western Kenya 35
- Chapter 3 Health and Healing in 'Nyole Cosmology 67
- Chapter 4 Christianity and First Culture Contact: Movement of Ideas and the Making of a New Social Formation in Bunyore 103
- Chapter 5 The Colonial State, Health, and Healing in Bunyore 159
- Chapter 6 Health and the African Rural World: Biomedical Visions and Re-visions 205
- Chapter 7 Dis-ease in the Colonial State: Experience and Meaning 233.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0313320039
- OCLC:
- 47625386
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