Title Endangered species : health, illness, and death among Madagascar's people of the forest / Janice Harper

Published Durham, N.C. : Carolina Academic Press, [2002] ©2002

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Description xvii, 273 pages : illustrations, portrait ; 23 cm Series Carolina Academic Press ethnographic studies in medical anthropology series Carolina Academic Press ethnographic studies in medical anthropology series. Contents Ch. 1. Introduction -- Ch. 2. The Anthropology of Forest Medicine Use -- Ch. 3. The Research Setting -- Ch. 4. No Other Place on Earth: The Historical Context of Environmental Change in Madagascar -- Ch. 5. Social Status and Access to Land -- Ch. 6. Dividing That Which Cannot Be Divided: Ancestry and Ethnicity in Ranotsara -- Ch. 7. Naturalizing Sickness -- Ch. 8. Life and Death in Ranotsara -- Ch. 9. Conclusion Notes Originally presented as the author's thesis (Ph. D.--Michigan State University, 1999) under the title: The political ecology of health and disease among forest farmers of southeastern Madagascar Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-263) and index Subject Medical anthropology -- Madagascar. Traditional medicine -- Madagascar. Tanala (Malagasy people) -- Medicine. Betsileo (Malagasy people) -- Medicine. Tanala (Malagasy people) -- Health and hygiene. Betsileo (Malagasy people) -- Health and hygiene. Anthropology. Medicine, Traditional. Social Change. Sociology, Medical. SUBJECT Ranomafana National Park (Madagascar) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh94004023 Madagascar http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80087494 -- Social conditions. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2001008850 Madagascar. https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D008270 Author Harper, Janice, 1958- Political ecology of health and disease among forest farmers of southeastern Madagascar LC no. 2002107086 ISBN 0890892385

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