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Cosmos, gods and madmen
The social anthropology of sickness and health has always been concerned with religious cosmologies: how societies make sense of such issues as prediction and control of misfortune and fate; the malevolence of others; the benevolence (or otherwise) of the mystical world; local understanding and explanations of the natural and ultra-human worlds. This volume presents differing categorizations and conflicts that occur as people seek to make sense of suffering and their experiences. Cosmologies, whether incorporating the divine or as purely secular, lead us to interpret human action and the human constitution, its ills and its healing and, in particular, ways which determine and limit our very possibilities.
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Engaging Evil
Anthropologists have expressed wariness about the concept of
evil even in discussions of morality and ethics, in part because
the concept carries its own cultural baggage and theological
implications in Euro-American societies. Addressing the problem of
evil as a distinctly human phenomenon and a category of
ethnographic analysis, this volume shows the usefulness of engaging
evil as a descriptor of empirical reality where concepts such as
violence, criminality, and hatred fall short of capturing the
darkest side of human existence.
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