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Cambridge University Press Questioning Misfortune: The Pragmatics of Uncertainty in Eastern Uganda: 4 (Cambridge Studies in Medical Anthropology, Series Number 4)

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Some of the most interesting ethnographies of experience are concerned to highlight the indeterminate nature of life. Questioning Misfortune is very much within this tradition. Based on a long-term study of adversity and its social causes in Bunyole, eastern Uganda, it considers the way in which people deal with uncertainties of life, such as sickness, suffering, marital problems, failure, and death. Divination may identify causes of misfortune, ranging from ancestors and spirits to sorcerers. Sufferers and their families will then try out a variety of remedial measures, including pharmaceuticals, sorcery antidotes, and sacrifices. But remedies often fail, and doubt and uncertainty persist. Even the commercialisation of biomedicine, and the peril of AIDS can be understood in terms of a pragmatics of uncertainty.

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Brand: Cambridge University Press
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ASIN: 0521594022
Category: Books > Subjects > Politics, Philosophy & Social Sciences > Social Sciences > Cultural Studies
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Release Date: 08 January 1998
Listed Since: 04 January 2007

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