Healing is as healing does: Pragmatic resolution of misfortune among the Senufo (Ivory Coast)
| Autor: | Nicole Alice Sindzingre |
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| Rok vydání: | 1985 |
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| Zdroj: | History and Anthropology. 2:33-57 |
| ISSN: | 1477-2612 0275-7206 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/02757206.1985.9960757 |
| Popis: | Using the example of the representations and practices relative to the resolution of misfortune among the Senufo Fodonon, this article aims to show the non‐autonomy and irrelevance of categories such as ‘therapeutic,’ ‘illness,’ ‘medicine,’ usually taken for granted by anthropology. These activities and representations refer to — and depend on for their coherence — heterogeneous domains of social organization extrinsic to ‘illness,’ in biomedicine's isolation of this concept. These domains consist of the matrilineage structure, the form of initiation institutions, the logic of secrecy, and the unobservable ‘religious’ entities which are fluctuating and transformable (ancestors, spirits, twins, etc.) amongst which the possible causalities of the misfortune are selected. Following the stages of the “therapeutic processes,”; the first part describes one of two aspects — the procedures and institutions concerning the resolution of illness — and shows that they form a sub‐set of the local ways of treating the ... |
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