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: Paperback
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780521595582
Subjects: Social & cultural anthropology; Social issues; Archaeology / Anthropology; Social Science; Sociology; Africa - General; Anthropology - Cultural; Ethnology--Uganda--Bunyole (District); Social Science / Anthropology / General; Anthropology - General
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).