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Cover; Title page; Copyright page; Contents; Acknowledgements; Plates; Preface; 1. Introduction: the co-implication of anthropologists and their hosts; The book and this chapter; The intercultural encounter: perspectives and challenges; The anthropologist and the host groups; Feeling affected and questioned; Ethical commitment and shared humanity; The Yakaphone people; Reciprocal anthropology and innovative research; Reversal of perspectives: seeing here from there; The body-group-world weave; Towards an ontology of resonance and co-naturality; A matrixial understanding of subjectification. |
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OverviewPart 1 -- The shock of the multicultural; 2. The multicentric world: interview by Jan Van Pelt; 3. In praise of Jean-Marc Ela, advocate of the people of below; 4. Frenzy, violence and ethical renewal in Kinshasa; Method of inquiry; Kinshasa; An orgy of violence and ruptures in the 1990s; The ethical dawn of oniric regeneration; Mimesis ends in exhaustion; The dawn of a new cosmology; Conclusion; Part 2 -- Cultural embedding of the body, senses and meaning; 5. A dancing mask, estranged in the museum; The dancing masks; A cult enactment turned into a curio. |
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The masculine gaze and its incipient deconstructionThe mask's view upon the observer; 6. Affects and senses in healing; Affliction cults' life-bearing meaning; Blending of sensory capacities; Borderlinking and the dynamic of homeopathy; Conclusion; Part 3 -- The moral economy of the intercultural; 7. Salvation of souls: the Belgian masculine missionary; The "civilising mission"; The Belgian missionary endeavour in the Congo; Christian modernisation in the homeland; The missionaries' styles and strategies; Indigenising or the adaptation effort; The assimilation strategy. |
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Harmonious association attemptsThe whitening trap; The educational endeavour; Schools and books as subjugation; Different styles of education; The indigenising approach to education; Towards a practical education, but unsuccessful; The association option; Higher learning and university; Epilogue; 8. Anthropology cataloguing classical African medicine; Classical African medicine and health care; Local cultural perspectives on body and health; The life-force and life-flow; The gendering of health; Symptoms and cultural etiology; Diagnosis; Cultural idioms of distress; Divinatory etiology. |
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TreatmentAffliction and healing cults; The synergism of healing procedures; Transforming devices and cultural inducers; Conclusion; 9. Plural health care in Kinshasa; The action-research; Research setting; Research techniques; Findings; From data to interpretation; From research to action; Quality of care; Organisation of the healers; Benefits for the community; Collaboration with biomedical care; Cooperation with faith healers; Discussion; Contemporary Congo's shattered mirrors; The lay therapy management group; The mind set of the researchers; Product of Western-derived science; Conclusion. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Intercultural communication.
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Intercultural communication. |
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Electronic books.
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Print version: Devisch, Rene. Body and Affect in the Intercultural Encounter. Langaa RPCIG, 2017 9956764019 9789956764013 (OCoLC)971066195 |
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9956764280 (electronic book) |
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9789956764280 (electronic book) |
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9956764019 |
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9789956764013 |
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