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

Published Tucson : University of Arizona Press, ©2011

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Description 1 online resource (xvii, 255 pages) : illustrations, maps Series First peoples : new directions in Indigenous studies First peoples (2010) Contents The upper Orinoco Yanomami and their context -- Particularizing the Upper Orinoco health system -- Epidemic diseases, Criollos, and the morality of being human -- Becoming Napë and the Napë transformational axis -- Making kin, making society, and Napë potential affinity -- Being and performing Napë and Yanomami -- Doctors and Shamans -- Two meetings and a protest -- Changing tides and mixed feelings Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject Yanomamo Indians -- Health and hygiene -- Venezuela -- Orinoco River Delta Yanomamo Indians -- Medical care -- 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 SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General. Medical policy Politics and government Public health Shamanism Social conditions Traditional medicine Yanomamo Indians -- Health and hygiene Yanomamo Indians -- Medical care Yanomamo Indians -- Social conditions SUBJECT Orinoco River Delta (Venezuela) -- Politics and government Orinoco River Delta (Venezuela) -- Social conditions Subject Venezuela -- Orinoco River Delta Form Electronic book ISBN 0816502862 9780816502868

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