This is a truly stunning ethnography. Beautifully written and carefully argued, it explains how understandings about health and illness become so widespread as to be virtually unquestionable, while others are idiosyncratic or shared among relatively few people. Significant here is the way anxiety sh... Lees verder

An ethnographic exploration of health, illness, and healing among a poor, rural Indonesian people. Sasaks live on Lombok, the island with one of the country's worst health records. Sasks cope with the threat of death by selectively accessing the medical knowledge of various medical traditions, incl... Lees verder