Questioning Misfortune
Subtitle: The Pragmatics of Uncertainty in Eastern Uganda (Cambridge Studies in Medical Anthropology)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: February 13, 1998
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780521594028
Subjects: Social & cultural anthropology; Social issues; Ethnology; Social Science; Archaeology / Anthropology; Uganda; Sociology; Medical Anthropology; Africa - General; Anthropology - Cultural; Ethnology--Uganda--Bunyole (District); Social Science / Anthropology / General; Anthropology - General; Bunyole (District); Divination
First sentence: Some thirty years ago, Clifford Geertz declared that the problem of suffering, as a religious problem, is how to suffer, not how to avoid suffering (Geertz 1967:19).