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xiv, 258 pages : 24 cm "Some of the most interesting new ethnographics of experience 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 try out a variety of remedial measures, including pharmaceuticals, sorcery antidotes, and sacrifices. But remedies often fail, and doubt and uncertainty persist. Even the recent commercialization of biomedicine, and the peril of AIDS can be understood in terms of a pragmatics of uncertainty."--Jacket Includes bibliographical references (pages 242-251) and index 1. An uncertain world. 1. Misfortune and uncertainty. 2. The pursuit of health and prosperity. 3. Going to ask -- 2. 'What you cannot see': the revelations of spirits. 4. At home with the dead. 5. The fertility of clanship. 6. Little spirits and child survival -- 3. 'You will know me': the opacity of humans. 7. Speaking of morality. 8. Substances and secrecy -- 4. The pragmatics of uncertainty. 9. More questions. 10. Consequences

Chủ đề: Ethnology -- Uganda -- Bunyole (District), Medical anthropology -- Uganda -- Bunyole (District), Divination -- Uganda -- Bunyole (District), Social problems -- Uganda -- Bunyole (District), Ethnology, Anthropology, Magic, Social problems, Ethnologie -- Ouganda -- Bunyole, Anthropologie médicale --

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