Death in Abeyance : : Illness and Therapy among the Tabwa of Central Africa / / Christopher Davis.
This is a comprehensive survey, in both its theory and its practice, of the Tabwa who live on the western shore of Lake Tanganyika in the Democratic Republic of Congo (fomerly Zaire). The following topics are covered: concepts of the body and of illness, illness categories and approaches to diagnosi...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-2000 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022] ©2000 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | International African Library : IAL
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (342 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- List of Maps, Tables and Figures
- Acknowledgements
- By way of an introduction
- PART I: The defile of the signifier
- 1 Dimensions of the Body
- 2 The Disorder of Things I: Diagnostic Categories and the Classification of Illness
- 3 The Disorder of Things II: Aetiology of Disease and the Process of Divination
- 4 The Defile of the Signifier: From Symptom to Life History
- PART II: Generation of identity, (re)production of history
- 5 Illness and Personal Identity: Kiabu's Case
- 6 Illness and Local History: Mwanga Village
- PART III: Intervening in the substantial real
- 7 Bodily Therapies
- 8 The Logic of a Substantial World
- 9 Events Objectified: Words into Things
- 10 Futures Realised: Events out of Things
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index