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  • Pandora's Box: Ethnography and the Comparison of Medical Beliefs

    The 1979 Lewis Henry Morgan Lectures

    by Gilbert Lewis ...
    In this book, written between 1979 and 2020, Gilbert Lewis distills a lifetime of insights he garnered as a medical anthropologist. He asks: How do different cultures' beliefs about illness influence patients' abilities to heal? Despite the advances of Western medicine, what can it learn from non-Western societies that consider sickness and curing to be as much a matter of social relationships as ... Read more

    $13.09 USD

  • The Threat From Within

    White Nationalism

    by Gilbert Lewis ...
    The Threat From WithinBy: Gilbert LewisThe ISIS high command is angry that the hostage operation has failed. They conclude that their main obstacle is the MI6 operative, Estella “Rose” Mathews. Rose and a combined team of British and French Special Forces successfully rescued the six hostages from England, France, and the United States.After the hostages were successfully rescued, ISIS now plans ... Read more

    $23.00 USD

  • Knowledge of Illness in a Sepik Society

    A Study of the Gnau, New Guinea Volume 52

    by Gilbert Lewis ...
    Series series LSE Monographs on Social Anthropology
    Illness is a matter of concern in every society. Social responses to it depend both on the nature of the illness and on cultural interpretation of its significance. This study of the occurrence, recognition and explanation of illness amongst the Gnau makes use of its author's dual training in medicine and anthropology to show why, how far, and in what respects these people of a forest village in ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • A Continuing Trial of Treatment

    Medical Pluralism in Papua New Guinea

    Edited by Stephen Frankel, Gilbert Lewis ...
    Series Book 14 - Culture, Illness and Healing

    $188.09 USD

  • Ritual and Memory

    Toward a Comparative Anthropology of Religion

    by J.D.Y Peel, David Shankland, Maurice Bloch, Brian Malley, Susan Bayly, Leo Howe, Gilbert Lewis (St. John's College, Cambridge), Jack Goody, Christian K. Højbjerg ...
    Series series Cognitive Science of Religion
    Ethnographers of religion have created a vast record of religious behavior from small-scale non-literate societies to globally distributed religions in urban settings. So a theory that claims to explain prominent features of ritual, myth, and belief in all contexts everywhere causes ethnographers a skeptical pause. In Ritual and Memory, however, a wide range of ethnographers grapple critically ... Read more

    $49.39 USD

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    When a new baby arrives among the Beng people of West Africa, they see it not as being born, but as being reincarnated after a rich life in a previous world. Far from being a tabula rasa, a Beng infant is thought to begin its life filled with spiritual knowledge. How do these beliefs affect the way the Beng rear their children?In this unique and engaging ethnography of babies, Alma Gottlieb ... Read more

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  • Karanga Indigenous Religion in Zimbabwe

    Health and Well-Being

    by Tabona Shoko ...
    Series series Vitality of Indigenous Religions
    Tabona Shoko contends that religion and healing are intricately intertwined in African religions. This book on the religion of the Karanga people of Zimbabwe sheds light on important methodological issues relevant to research in the study of African religions. Analysing the traditional Karanga views of the causes of illness and disease, mechanisms of diagnosis at their disposal and the methods ... Read more

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  • 12 Rules for Life

    An Antidote to Chaos

    by Jordan B. Peterson ...
    **OVER TEN MILLION COPIES SOLD#1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERWhat are the most valuable things that everyone should know?**Acclaimed clinical psychologist Jordan B Peterson has influenced the modern understanding of personality, and now he has become one of the world's most popular public thinkers, with his lectures on topics from the Bible to romantic relationships to mythology drawing tens of ... Read more

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  • The World Until Yesterday

    What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies?

    by Jared Diamond ...
    **The bestselling author of Collapse and Guns, Germs and Steel surveys the history of human societies to answer the question: What can we learn from traditional societies that can make the world a better place for all of us?“As he did in his Pulitzer Prize-winning Guns, Germs, and Steel, Jared Diamond continues to make us think with his mesmerizing and absorbing new book." Bookpage**Most of us ... Read more

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  • The Pain Chronicles

    Cures, Myths, Mysteries, Prayers, Diaries, Brain Scans, Healing, and the Science of Suffering

    by Melanie Thernstrom ...
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  • Purity and Danger

    An Analysis of Concepts of Pollution and Taboo

    by Professor Mary Douglas ...
    Series series Routledge Classics
    In Purity and Danger Mary Douglas identifies the concern for purity as a key theme at the heart of every society. In lively and lucid prose she explains its relevance for every reader by revealing its wide-ranging impact on our attitudes to society, values, cosmology and knowledge. The book has been hugely influential in many areas of debate - from religion to social theory. But perhaps its most ... Read more

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  • Yatdjuligin

    Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Nursing and Midwifery Care

    Edited by Odette Best, Bronwyn Fredericks ...
    Yatdjuligin: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Nursing and Midwifery Care introduces students to the fundamentals of health care of Indigenous Australians, encompassing the perspectives of both the client and the health practitioner. Written for all nurses and midwives, this book addresses the relationship between Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures and mainstream health services ... Read more

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