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State Healthcare and Yanomami Transformations
2011
Overview
Amazonian indigenous peoples have preserved many aspects of their culture and cosmology while also developing complex relationships with dominant non-indigenous society. Until now, anthropological writing on Amazonian peoples has been divided between \"traditional\" topics like kinship, cosmology, ritual, and myth, on the one hand, and the analysis of their struggles with the nation-state on the other. What has been lacking is work that bridges these two approaches and takes into consideration the meaning of relationships with the state from an indigenous perspective.That long-standing dichotomy is challenged in this new ethnography by anthropologist José Kelly. Kelly places the study of culture and cosmology squarely within the context of the modern nation-state and its institutions. He explores Indian-white relations as seen through the operation of a state-run health system among the indigenous Yanomami of southern Venezuela.With theoretical foundations in the fields of medical and Amazonian anthropology, Kelly sheds light on how Amerindian cosmology shapes concepts of the state at the community level. The result is a symmetrical anthropology that treats white and Amerindian perceptions of each other within a single theoretical framework, thus expanding our understanding of each group and its influences on the other. This book will be valuable to those studying Amazonian peoples, medical anthropology, development studies, and Latin America. Its new takes on theory and methodology make it ideal for classroom use.
Publisher
University of Arizona Press
Subject
/ Cultural
/ Diseases
/ Doctors
/ Health
/ Kinship
/ Medical policy -- Venezuela -- Orinoco River Delta
/ Morality
/ Orinoco River Delta (Venezuela)
/ Orinoco River Delta (Venezuela) -- Politics and government
/ Orinoco River Delta (Venezuela) -- Social conditions
/ Public health -- Venezuela -- Orinoco River Delta
/ Shamanism -- Venezuela -- Orinoco River Delta
/ Society
/ Traditional medicine -- Venezuela -- Orinoco River Delta
/ Yanomamo Indians -- Health and hygiene -- Venezuela -- Orinoco River Delta
/ Yanomamo Indians -- Medical care -- Venezuela -- Orinoco River Delta
/ Yanomamo Indians -- Venezuela -- Orinoco River Delta -- Social conditions
ISBN
9780816529209, 0816529205, 9780816502868, 0816502862
