Personhood and illness among the kulina

Medical Anthropology Quarterly

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 319-341

  Pollock, Donald ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

Amazonian Indians; Ethnomedicine; Personhood

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AMERICAN INDIAN; ARTICLE; BRAZIL; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; MALE; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SELF CONCEPT; TRADITIONAL MEDICINE; WITCHCRAFT;

ADULT; AGED; ANTHROPOLOGY, CULTURAL; BRAZIL; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIANS, SOUTH AMERICAN; INFANT; MALE; MEDICINE, TRADITIONAL; SELF CONCEPT; SICK ROLE; WITCHCRAFT;

EID: 0030227844     PISSN: 07455194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/maq.1996.10.3.02a00010     Document Type: Article

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