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dc.contributor.authorRekdal, Ole Bjørn
dc.date.accessioned2018-02-01T15:10:21Z
dc.date.available2018-02-01T15:10:21Z
dc.date.issued1999-12
dc.identifier.citationThis article is available in AnthroSourceen
dc.identifier.issn0745-5194
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11250/2482041
dc.description.abstractExamples of cross-cultural therapeutic relations have been mentioned frequently in ethnographic accounts from East Africa but have rarely been the object of in-depth description and analysis. Colonialist ideology, structural-functionalist anthropology, and a number of more recent medical anthropological contributions have been biased in ways that have drawn attention away from what is a prominent feature of African traditional medicine: the search for healing in the culturally distant. A focus on the dynamics and ideology of cross-cultural healing may be crucial for an understanding of processes generated by the encounter between biomedicine and African traditional medical systems. As is exemplified by the Iraqw of Tanzania, widespread acceptance and extensive use of biomedical health services may not necessarily mean that people abandon traditional beliefs and practices. Quite the contrary, the attribution power to the culturally distant implies an openness to the unfamiliar, the alien, and the unknown, which may have facilitated the introduction and acceptance of biomedical health services,en
dc.language.isoengen
dc.publisherAmerican Anthropological Associationen
dc.relation.ispartofseriesMedical Anthropology Quarterly 13(4)en
dc.subject.othermedical anthropologyen
dc.subject.otherTanzaniaen
dc.subject.otherIraqwen
dc.subject.othercross-cultural healingen
dc.subject.othertraditional medicineen
dc.titleCross-Cultural Healing in East African Ethnographyen
dc.typePeer revieweden
dc.typeJournal article
dc.subject.nsiVDP::Medisinske Fag: 700en


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