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Armstrong, Alice [Contributor]; Dein, Simon [Contributor]; Lange, Isabelle L. [Contributor]; Littlewood, Roland [Contributor]; Littlewood, Roland [Editor]; Lynch, Rebecca [Contributor]; Lynch, Rebecca [Editor]; Napier, A. David [Contributor]; Orr, David M. R. [Contributor]; Read, Ursula M. [Contributor]; Reynolds, Ellie [Contributor]; Reynolds, Rodney J. [Contributor]

Cosmos, Gods and Madmen

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  • Media type: E-Book
  • Title: Cosmos, Gods and Madmen : Frameworks in the Anthropologies of Medicine
  • Contains: Frontmatter
    Contents
    Acknowledgements
    Introduction: Divinity, Disease, Distress
    Chapter 1 Why Animism Matters
    Chapter 2 Spreading the Gospel of the Miracle Cure: Panama’s Black Christ
    Chapter 3 Madness and Miracles: Hoping for Healing in Rural Ghana
    Chapter 4 ‘Sakawa’ Rumours Occult Internet Fraud and Ghanaian Identity
    Chapter 5 To Heal the Body: The Body as Congregation among Post-Surgical Patients in Benin
    Chapter 6 Addiction and the Duality of the Self in a North American Religio- Therapeutic Community
    Chapter 7 Religious Conversion and Madness: Contested Territory in the Peruvian Andes
    Chapter 8 Cosmologies of Fear: The Medicalization of Anxiety in Contemporary Britain
    Chapter 9 Functionalists and Zombis: Sorcery as Spandrel and Social Rescue
    Chapter 10 Religion and Psychosis: A Common Evolutionary Trajectory?
    Index
  • Contributor: Armstrong, Alice [Contributor]; Dein, Simon [Contributor]; Lange, Isabelle L. [Contributor]; Littlewood, Roland [Contributor]; Littlewood, Roland [Editor]; Lynch, Rebecca [Contributor]; Lynch, Rebecca [Editor]; Napier, A. David [Contributor]; Orr, David M. R. [Contributor]; Read, Ursula M. [Contributor]; Reynolds, Ellie [Contributor]; Reynolds, Rodney J. [Contributor]
  • Published: New York; Oxford: Berghahn Books, [2016]
  • Extent: 1 Online-Ressource (220 p.)
  • Language: English
  • DOI: 10.1515/9781785331787
  • ISBN: 9781785331787
  • Identifier:
  • Keywords: Cosmology ; Medical anthropology ; Religion and medicine ; MEDICAL / Healing ; Medical Anthropology, Healing, Diseases, Cosmologies, Medicine, Religion
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  • Footnote: In English
  • Description: The social anthropology of sickness and health has always been concerned with religious cosmologies: how societies make sense of such issues as prediction and control of misfortune and fate; the malevolence of others; the benevolence (or otherwise) of the mystical world; local understanding and explanations of the natural and ultra-human worlds. This volume presents differing categorizations and conflicts that occur as people seek to make sense of suffering and their experiences. Cosmologies, whether incorporating the divine or as purely secular, lead us to interpret human action and the human constitution, its ills and its healing and, in particular, ways which determine and limit our very possibilities
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