Lusaka´s urban healers: negotiators of modernity, Christianity and local cultural traditions

The syncretic character of contemporary Lusaka´s medical culture encompassing the elements of traditional and Christian healing as well as western biomedicine has been significantly shaped by the processes of modernization, and now globalization. The circulation of persons, objects and ideas, typica...

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Main Author: Mildnerova, Katerina (author)
Format: conferenceObject
Language:eng
Published: 2011
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10071/2393
Country:Portugal
Oai:oai:repositorio.iscte-iul.pt:10071/2393