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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kelly, José Antonio.

Series:

First peoples (2010)

First peoples : new directions in indigenous studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Yanomamo Indians--Health and hygiene--Venezuela--Orinoco River Delta.

Yanomamo Indians.

Yanomamo Indians--Medical care--Venezuela--Orinoco River Delta.

Yanomamo Indians--Medical care.

Shamanism.

Traditional medicine.

Medical policy.

Public health.

Social conditions.

Yanomamo Indians--Health and hygiene.

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.

Orinoco River Delta (Venezuela)--Politics and government.

Orinoco River Delta (Venezuela).

Orinoco River Delta (Venezuela)--Social conditions.

Physical Description:

xvii, 255 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Tucson : University of Arizona Press, [2011]

Contents:

1 The Upper Orinoco Yanomami and Their Context 14

2 Particularizing the Upper Orinoco Health System 34

3 Epidemic Diseases, Criollos, and the Morality of Being Human 52

4 Becoming Napë and the Napë Transformational Axis 74

5 Making Kin, Making Society, and Napë Potential Affinity 93

6 Being and Performing Napë and Yanomami 111

7 Doctors and Shamans 140

8 Two Meetings and a Protest 164

9 Changing Tides and Mixed Feelings 200.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780816529209

0816529205

OCLC:

713192633