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Author(s) -
Vincanne Adams
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
medicine anthropology theory
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2405-691X
DOI - 10.17157/mat.3.2.440
Subject(s) - ethnomedicine , ontology , epistemology , sociology , anthropology , philosophy , medicine , traditional medicine , medicinal plants
This collection of essays brings to light important themes in medical anthropology that have been eclipsed in recent years by theoretical turns toward problems of suffering, experience, and ontology (among others). Namely, they remind us of the importance of what was once popularly called the study of ‘ethnomedicine’.
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