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Illness is a weapon [electronic resource] : indigenous identity and enduring afflictions / Eirik Saethre, Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Hawai'i at Manoa

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Saethre, Eirik
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1 online resource (pages cm)
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Contents
Machine generated contents note: 1.Everyday Illness -- 2.Food, Meaning, and Economy -- 3.Contemporary Cosmologies -- 4.Medical Systems and Illness Experience -- 5.Noncompliance -- 6.Imposed Empowerment -- 7.Closing the Gap.
Summary
"Presents the everyday experience of disease in a remote Australian Aboriginal community. Explores the factors structuring ill health, the tactics individuals use to negotiate these realities, and the ways in which sickness is invoked to construct, manage, and challenge race relations"--Provided by publisher.
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9780826519221
9780826519207 (cloth edition : alk. paper)
9780826519214 (pbk. edition : alk. paper)
0826519202
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Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references.
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