This 26th volume in the Research in Economic Anthropology series
differs in two main ways from all those that have come before. For
one, it is the first REA volume to focus exclusively on the issue
of health. In addition, it is not as concerned overall with
economic or social theory, or with economic reasoning and action,
as other volumes have been. Rather, it concentrates on the
identification and analysis of important economic factors in the
production of health and wellness. The volume consists of ten
original anthropological papers that explore the general theme of
the economics of health and wellness in a variety of ways. Some of
these papers are more strongly ethnographic in nature, relying
wholly on qualitative data derived from participant-observer
methods at which ethnographers excel. Other papers successfully
blend such information with quantitative data drawn from surveys,
questionnaires, and even from biological samples. All papers,
however, are grounded in empirical methods and based on data drawn
from the personal investigations of the authors. Subjects and
geographic areas represented in the volume are: 1) Lakota residents
of the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota, USA, 2) rural
people of Bangladesh, 3) mental health care facilities and systems
in Texas, USA, 4) unsuccessful rural-urban migrants in Botswana,
Southern Africa, 5) loggers in British Columbia, Canada, 6)
municipal bus drivers in San Francisco, California, 7) poor
residents of Puebla, Mexico, 8) slum dwellers of Lima, Peru, 9)
female victims of domestic abuse in Northern Vietnam, and 10)
followers of Tibetan Buddhism in France.
*Original articles written by experts in theirfields
*International in scope
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