Theories of sickness and misfortune amongst the Hadandowa Beja: narratives as points of entry into Beja cultural knowledge. (Book Reviews: Medical Anthropology).(Book Review)

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JACOBSEN, FRODE F. Theorics of sickness and misfortune amongst the Hadandowa Beja: narratives as points of entry into Beja cultural knowledge. xiv, 366 PP., maps, illus., bib-liogr. London, New York: Kegan Paul International, 1998. [pounds sterling]55.00 (cloth)

In this book Jacobsen attempts to employ the sickness and misfortune narratives of the Beja pastoralists of the eastern Sudan as entries into their cultural knowledge or, more specifically, into their 'traditional' medical discourse. After a brief introduction and a chapter in which he explains why he focuses ...

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