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the pragmatics of uncertainty in Eastern Uganda

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Cambridge University Press
Language
English
Pages
258

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Subjects
Religious life and customs, Ethnology, Social problems, Social conditions, Divination, Medical anthropology, Ethnology, uganda, Uganda, social conditions, Uganda, religion, Anthropology, Magic, Ethnologie, Anthropologie médicale, Problèmes sociaux, Conditions sociales, Vie religieuse, Anthropologie, Magie, Illusion (performing art), Social issues, Brauch, Religiöses Leben, Medizin, Tegenslag, Nyoro (volk), Moeurs et coutumes, Social Problems
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Uganda, Bunyole (District), Bunyole (Uganda : District)

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Questioning Misfortune: The Pragmatics of Uncertainty in Eastern Uganda (Cambridge Studies in Medical Anthropology)
February 13, 1998, Cambridge University Press
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Questioning Misfortune: The Pragmatics of Uncertainty in Eastern Uganda (Cambridge Studies in Medical Anthropology)
February 13, 1998, Cambridge University Press
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Questioning misfortune: the pragmatics of uncertainty in Eastern Uganda
1997, Cambridge University Press
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Cambridge, New York

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 242-251) and index.

Series
Cambridge studies in medical anthropology ;, 4

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306/.096761
Library of Congress
GN659.U3 W59 1997

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xiv, 258 p. :
Number of pages
258

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Open Library
OL664655M
Internet Archive
questioningmisfo0000whyt
ISBN 10
0521594022
LCCN
97010235
OCLC/WorldCat
36549001
Library Thing
1336665
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3770650

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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).
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