The problem of money : African agency and Western medicine in northern Ghana

The problem of money : African agency and Western medicine in northern Ghana /

"Based on long-term medical anthropological research in northern Ghana, the author analyses issues of health and healing, of gender, and of the control and use of money in a changing rural African setting. He describes the culture of medical pluralism, typical for neo-colonial states, and peopl...

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Main Author: Bierlich, Bernhard, 1963- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Berghahn Books, 2007.
Series:Monographs in German history.
Subjects:
Medical anthropology > Ghana > Dagomba.
Traditional medicine > Ghana > Dagomba.
Medical innovations > Economic aspects > Ghana > Dagomba.
Medical innovations > Social aspects > Ghana > Dagomba.
Social change.
Magic.
Medicine, African Traditional
Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice
Socioeconomic Factors
Interpersonal Relations
Social Change
Magic
illusion (performing art)
magic (occult science)
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Economics > General.
Social change
Manners and customs
Medical anthropology
Medical innovations > Economic aspects
Medical innovations > Social aspects
Traditional medicine
Dagomba
Interkulturalität
Kulturübertragung
Marktmacht
Medizinische Versorgung
Volksmedizin
Ethnomedizin
Dagomba (Ghana) > Social life and customs.
Ghana
Ghana > Dagomba
Dagomba.
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