Monday, May 16, 2011

Driven Underground

"Culina were also aware that Brazilians generally ridicule their traditional ethnomedical beliefs and practices, so they often simply concealed witchcraft illness from the missionaries."
Health Care Among the Culina, Western Amazonia
Pollack, Donald
Cultural Survival Quarterly (12) 1
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