ON STANDS
The End of Summer, Part 2
Tags: alcohol, alcoholism, contraception, fieldwork, Kallawaya healer, medicine men, reproductive illness, sexuality, Sobreparto
Added on Friday, October 1st, 2010 to Fieldnotes sections.
So, what have I learned about medical anthropology in Bolivia? A lot, although I’ve only begun scratching the surface of all these topics. For a med-anth dork like myself, this is a great situation- it seems like every day, some new…
Courting La Paz, Part 1
Tags: Bolivia, chronic bodily pain, fieldwork, indigenous medicine, La Paz, language training, medical anthropology
Added on Wednesday, August 11th, 2010 to Fieldnotes sections.
When one arrives at a new fieldsite, the only things one can know with any certainty are the changes in one’s own experience. Lacunas of knowledge burst into one’s consciouness like the appearance of crystal-clear lakes dotting the ground…
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