Keck, Verena — Social Discord and Bodily Disorders

Durham, North Carolina, Carolina Academic Press, 2005. . Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Extremely scarce in the trade, there being only two additional copies available on-line currently. Sterling condition softcover copy, with unfurled tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear. Glossy pictorial wraps, a fine ethnographic study of the cultures of health and sickness, wellness and suffering among the Yupno of Papua New Guinea. Publisher's blurb offers that the author focuses on the "link between personal illness and disturbed social relations", but revolving around a single child as an exemplar of a larger culture. xix, [3], 336 pp. Full notes, bibliography, notes, glossary and even a list of botanical references.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Fine