- We will send in 10–14 business days.
/images/books/12373055/9781845453510.jpg)
- Author: Bernhard Bierlich
- Publisher: Berghahn Books
- ISBN-10: 1845453514
- ISBN-13: 9781845453510
- Format: 15.2 x 22.9 x 1.6 cm, kieti viršeliai
- Language: English
- SAVE -10% with code: EXTRA
Reviews
Description
Based on long-term medical anthropological research in northern Ghana, the author analyses issues of health and healing, of gender, and of the control and use of money in a changing rural African setting. He describes the culture of medical pluralism, so typical for neo-colonial states, and people's choices of "traditional" (local) medicine (plants and sacrifices), Islamic medicine (charms and various written solutions) and "modern" therapy (biomedicine, in particular western pharmaceuticals). He concludes that the rural-urban divide is a fiction, that demarcations between these areas are frequently blurred, linked by a postcolonial, capitalist discourse of local markets, regional economies and national structures, which frequently emerge in local African settings but often originate in global and multinational markets.
EXTRA 10 % discount with code: EXTRA
The promotion ends in 23d.13:01:50
The discount code is valid when purchasing from 10 €. Discounts do not stack.
- Author: Bernhard Bierlich
- Publisher: Berghahn Books
- ISBN-10: 1845453514
- ISBN-13: 9781845453510
- Format: 15.2 x 22.9 x 1.6 cm, kieti viršeliai
- Language: English English
Based on long-term medical anthropological research in northern Ghana, the author analyses issues of health and healing, of gender, and of the control and use of money in a changing rural African setting. He describes the culture of medical pluralism, so typical for neo-colonial states, and people's choices of "traditional" (local) medicine (plants and sacrifices), Islamic medicine (charms and various written solutions) and "modern" therapy (biomedicine, in particular western pharmaceuticals). He concludes that the rural-urban divide is a fiction, that demarcations between these areas are frequently blurred, linked by a postcolonial, capitalist discourse of local markets, regional economies and national structures, which frequently emerge in local African settings but often originate in global and multinational markets.
Reviews