Illness is a weapon [electronic resource] : indigenous identity and enduring afflictions / Eirik Saethre, Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Hawai'i at Manoa.

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Saethre, Eirik

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Project Muse

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TextPublication details: Nashville : Vanderbilt University Press, [2012] 2015)Description: 1 online resource (pages cm)ISBN:

9780826519221

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Electronic books.

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362.1089/99 23

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RA553 .S236 2012

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Summary: "Presents the everyday experience of disease in a remote Australian Aboriginal community. Explores the factors structuring ill health, the tactics individuals use to negotiate these realities, and the ways in which sickness is invoked to construct, manage, and challenge race relations"--Provided by publisher.

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"Presents the everyday experience of disease in a remote Australian Aboriginal community. Explores the factors structuring ill health, the tactics individuals use to negotiate these realities, and the ways in which sickness is invoked to construct, manage, and challenge race relations"--Provided by publisher.

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