6 Illness and Local History: Mwanga Village

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter I
2. CONTENTS VII
3. List of Maps, Tables and Figures VIII
4. Acknowledgements IX
5. By way of an introduction 1
6. PART I: The defile of the signifier
7. 1 Dimensions of the Body 39
8. 2 The Disorder of Things I: Diagnostic Categories and the Classification of Illness 69
9. 3 The Disorder of Things II: Aetiology of Disease and the Process of Divination 93
10. 4 The Defile of the Signifier: From Symptom to Life History 110
11. PART II: Generation of identity, (re)production of history
12. 5 Illness and Personal Identity: Kiabu's Case 133
13. 6 Illness and Local History: Mwanga Village 163
14. PART III: Intervening in the substantial real
15. 7 Bodily Therapies 219
16. 8 The Logic of a Substantial World 244
17. 9 Events Objectified: Words into Things 258
18. 10 Futures Realised: Events out of Things 287
19. Notes 302
20. Bibliography 316
21. Index 331