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- Title
WORMS, WITCHCRAFT, AND WILD INCANTATIONS: THE CASE OF THE CHICKEN SOUP CURE.
- Authors
Ehrenreich, Jeffrey David
- Abstract
This article tells the story of a bewitched and dying Awá woman of Ecuador who, as a last resort, was brought to two ethnographers to be cured. The everyday ethical dilemmas of practicing medicine without license or training were compounded in this case by the need for the "doctors" to commit yet another fraud. In order to treat the illness ("diagnosed" as worms and starvation) the ethnographers had to induce their patient through ritual into believing that they knew what they were doing, not just as "'medical doctors," but also, in Awá cultural terms, as shamans.
- Subjects
ECUADOR; MEDICAL ethics; MEDICAL anthropology; ETHNOLOGY; WITCHCRAFT; PAIPAI (Mexican people)
- Publication
Anthropological Quarterly, 1996, Vol 69, Issue 3, p137
- ISSN
0003-5491
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/3317984