State Healthcare and Yanomami Transformations - A Symmetrical Ethnography

Informationen zum Autor José Antonio Kelly is a lecturer in anthropology at Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina. Klappentext This places the study of culture and cosmology squarely within the context of the modern nation-state and its institutions. It explores Indian-white relations as seen through the operation of a state-run health system among the indigenous Yanomami of southern Venezuela. Zusammenfassung This places the study of culture and cosmology squarely within the context of the modern nation-state and its institutions. It explores Indian-white relations as seen through the operation of a state-run health system among the indigenous Yanomami of southern Venezuela.

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• Authors: Jos Antonio Kelly, Jose Antonio Kelly, José Antonio Kelly
• Publisher: The University of Arizona Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.10.2011
• EAN: 9780816529209
• ISBN: 978-0-8165-2920-9
• No. of pages: 288
• Series: First Peoples: New Directions in Indigenous Studies; First Peoples: New Directions; First Peoples: New Directions
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories