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Questioning Misfortune - The Pragmatics of Uncertainty in Eastern Uganda (Hardcover, New)
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Questioning Misfortune - The Pragmatics of Uncertainty in Eastern Uganda (Hardcover, New)
Series: Cambridge Studies in Medical Anthropology
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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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