Embodied Protests examines how Bolivia's hesitant courtship with globalization manifested in the visceral and emotional diseases that afflicted many Bolivian women. Drawing on case studies conducted among market- and working-class women in the provincial town of Punata, Maria Tapias examines how headaches and debilidad , so-called normal bouts of infant diarrhea, and the malaise oppressing whole communities were symptomatic of profound social suffering. She approaches the narratives of distress caused by poverty, domestic violence, and the failure of social networks as constituting the knowledge that shaped their understandings of well-being. At the crux of Tapias's definitive analysis is the idea that individual health perceptions, actions, and practices cannot be separated from local cultural narratives or from global and economic forces. Evocative and compassionate, Embodied Protests gives voice to the human costs of the ongoing neoliberal experiment.
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Autorentext
Maria Tapias is an associate professor of anthropology and an associate dean at Grinnell College.
Titel
Embodied Protests
Untertitel
Emotions and Women's Health in Bolivia
Autor
EAN
9780252097157
ISBN
978-0-252-09715-7
Format
E-Book (epub)
Hersteller
Herausgeber
Veröffentlichung
15.05.2015
Digitaler Kopierschutz
Adobe-DRM
Dateigrösse
1.08 MB
Anzahl Seiten
176
Jahr
2015
Untertitel
Englisch
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