From the Fat of Our Souls Social Change Political Process and Medical Pluralism in Bolivia by Libbet Crandon-Malamud 9780520914452 0520914457

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• ISBN 10: 0520914457
• ISBN 13: 9780520914452
• Author: Libbet Crandon-Malamud

From the Fat of Our Souls offers a revealing new perspective on medicine, and the reasons for choosing or combining indigenous and cosmopolitan medical systems, in the Andean highlands. Closely observing the dialogue that surrounds medicine and medical care among Indians and Mestizos, Catholics and Protestants, peasants and professionals in the rural town of Kachitu, Libbet Crandon-Malamud finds that medical choice is based not on medical efficacy but on political concerns. Through the primary resource of medicine, people have access to secondary resources, the principal one being social mobility. This investigation of medical pluralism is also a history of class formation and the fluidity of both medical theory and social identity in highland Bolivia, and it is told through the often heartrending, often hilarious stories of the people who live there.

Table contents:

CHAPTER 1 Medical, Ethnic, and Religious Pluralism in Kachitu and the Cultural Identity Crisis
CHAPTER 2 Working in the Field
CHAPTER 3 The Historical Context from Which Kachitu Medical Ideology Emerged
CHAPTER 4 The Ecology of Dependency
CHAPTER 5 Indigenous Medicine
CHAPTER 6 Choices, Strategies, and Changes in Negotiating Identity Through Medicine: Medicine As Metaphor for the Nature of Ethnic Boundaries
CHAPTER 7 Choices, Strategies, and Changes in Negotiating Identity Through Medicine
CHAPTER 8 The Use and Abuse of Ethnic Boundaries: In Which the Doctor Begins His Medical Education and the Legal Values of Medical Etiology Are Exposed
CHAPTER 9 Medical Metaphors and Political Strategies: Gladiss Death
CHAPTER 10 Ideological Shifts and Acquisition of Power
CHAPTER 11 In Which The Medical Anthropologist Demonstrates the Limits of Her Education and the Doctor Demonstrates He Has Learned a Lot
CHAPTER 12 Culture, Ideology, and Hegemony, and the Meaning of Medical Pluralism

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