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The Role of Emic Analyses in Medical Anthropology; The Case of the Bono of Ghana
Warren, Dennis M.
Anthropological Linguistics, 17, 3, 117-126, Mar 75
A taxonomy and ethnographic description of terminology for diseases in Bono as presented in various studies. Divisions are drawn on 13 levels between those disease spiritually caused or naturally caused, contagious and non-contagious, those which will result in death and those which do not, etc. (SC)
Descriptors: Akan, Anthropology, Classification, Cultural Context, Cultural Images, Diseases, Ethnology, Medicine, Vocabulary
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Identifiers - Location: Ghana
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