Quest for Therapy in Lower Zaire

In this book, Dr. John M. Janzen describes patterns of healing among the BaKongo of Lower Zaire in Africa, who, like many peoples elsewhere, utilize cosmopolitan medicine alongside traditional healing practices. What criteria, he asks, determine the choice of the alternative therapies? And what is their institutional interrelationship?

In seeking answers, he analyzes case histories and cultural contexts to explore what social transactions, decisionmaking, illness and therapy classifications, and resource allocations are used in the choice of therapy by the ill, their kinfolk, friends, asociates, and specialized practitioners.

Info autore

John M. Janzen is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Kansas. His books include Lemba 1650-1930 (1982) and Ngoma: Discourses of Healing in Central and Southern Africa (California, 1992).

Riassunto

Describes patterns of healing among the BaKongo of Lower Zaire in Africa, who, like many people elsewhere, utilize cosmopolitan medicine alongside traditional healing practices. This book asks What criteria determine the choice of the alternative therapies? And what is their institutional interrelationship?

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: John M. Janzen, William Arkinstall, John M. Arkinstall Janzen, Janzen John M.
• Con la collaborazione di: Charles Leslie (Prefazione), Leslie Charles (Prefazione)
• Editore: University Of California Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Contenuto: Libro
• Forma del prodotto: Tascabile
• Data pubblicazione: 22.06.1982
• Categoria: Scienze naturali, medicina, informatica, tecnica > Medicina > Tematiche generali
• EAN: 9780520046337
• ISBN: 978-0-520-04633-7
• Numero di pagine: 308
• Serie: Comparative Studies of Health > 1; Comparative Studies of Health Systems and Medical Care
• Categorie: MEDICAL / Public Health, MEDICAL / Preventive Medicine, Public health & preventive medicine, Public health and preventive medicine, Democratic Republic of Congo (Zaire), Democratic Republic of Congo