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- Title: Mary-Jo Delvecchio Good, Sandra Teresa Hyde, Sarah Pinto and Byron J. Good, (Eds.), Postcolonial Disorders (Book Review)
- Author : Anthropological Quarterly
- Release Date : January 22, 2009
- Genre: Social Science,Books,Nonfiction,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 205 KB
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Mary-Jo DelVecchio Good, Sandra Teresa Hyde, Sarah Pinto and Byron J. Good, (eds.), Postcolonial Disorders. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2008. 465 pp. In this landmark collection, Good et al. bring together both seasoned scholars and young, newer voices to address the intriguing question of how one might identify and validate ethnographically the always complex, frequently chronic, and sometimes covert forms of suffering that arise in postcolonial environments. With seventeen contributors providing a total of fifteen chapters and an introductory essay, the volume might lay some claim to being encyclopedic. However, its tight focus on case studies and the impact of colonial oppression on illness narratives, and on narrative accounts of various colonial and postcolonial pathologies, means that readers can anticipate detailed, closely analyzed examples of how diseases are, as Hyde puts it, "mapped onto certain places and people more readily than others." (23).