A01=Libbet Crandon-Malamud
Author_Libbet Crandon-Malamud
bolivia
bolivian history
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catholicism
catholics
central america
central american history
class formation
cosmopolitan medical systems
cultural identity
ecology
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ethnic
health
hegemony
highland
illness
indigenous medical systems
kachitu
medical anthropology
medical care
medical education
medical efficacy
medical pluralism
medical theory
medicine
mestizos
peasants
political concerns
politics
professionals
protestantism
protestants
psychotherapy
rural town
social identity
social mobility
Product details
- ISBN 9780520084308
- Weight: 363g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 17 Dec 1993
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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From the Fat of Our Souls offers a revealing new perspective on medicine, and the reasons for choosing or combining indigenous and cosmopolitan medical systems, in the Andean highlands. Closely observing the dialogue that surrounds medicine and medical care among Indians and Mestizos, Catholics and Protestants, peasants and professionals in the rural town of Kachitu, Libbet Crandon-Malamud finds that medical choice is based not on medical efficacy but on political concerns. Through the primary resource of medicine, people have access to secondary resources, the principal one being social mobility. This investigation of medical pluralism is also a history of class formation and the fluidity of both medical theory and social identity in highland Bolivia, and it is told through the often heartrending, often hilarious stories of the people who live there.
Libbet Crandon-Malamud is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Columbia University and Director of Gender Studies, University of Arkansas, Little Rock.
