Questioning Misfortune : The Pragmatics of Uncertainty in Eastern Uganda

Name: Questioning Misfortune
Brand: Cambridge University Press
SKU: 9780521594028
Price: 14200 KES
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ISBN: 9780521594028

by Susan Reynolds Whyte

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Format Hardback

Book Series Cambridge Studies in Medical Anthropology

ISBN-10 0521594022

ISBN-13 9780521594028

Publisher Cambridge University Press

Imprint Cambridge University Press

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Jan 8th, 1998

Print length 274 Pages

Weight 560 grams

Dimensions 23.60 x 15.80 x 2.30 cms

Product Classification: Social and ethical issues Social issues & processes Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography Social and cultural anthropology

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This study of adversity and its social causes in rural Uganda considers how people deal with life's uncertainties - sickness, suffering, marital problems, failure, and death. It emphasises the fact that remedies often fail and that doubt and uncertainty persist.

Some of the most interesting ethnographies of experience are concerned to highlight the indeterminate nature of life. Questioning Misfortune is very much within this tradition. Based on a long-term study of adversity and its social causes in Bunyole, eastern Uganda, it considers the way in which people deal with uncertainties of life, such as sickness, suffering, marital problems, failure, and death. Divination may identify causes of misfortune, ranging from ancestors and spirits to sorcerers. Sufferers and their families will then try out a variety of remedial measures, including pharmaceuticals, sorcery antidotes, and sacrifices. But remedies often fail, and doubt and uncertainty persist. Even the commercialisation of biomedicine, and the peril of AIDS can be understood in terms of a pragmatics of uncertainty.

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