Vulnerability and the Art of Protection Embodiment and Health Care in Moroccan Households

Name: Vulnerability and the Art of Protection Embodiment and Health Care in Moroccan Households
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ISBN: 9781611631609

ISBN-10: 1611631602

ISBN-13: 9781611631609

Edition: 2012

Authors: Marybeth MacPhee

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Based on ethnographic research conducted in rural Morocco, Vulnerability and the Art of Protection examines how culture shapes health behavior in low-income households. The book explores local forms of social, cultural, and spiritual experience to discern when and how women caregivers heeded, ignored, and manipulated both scientific and folk knowledge about health dangers. The comparison illuminates links among the implicit structures of everyday life, embodied experience, and household health practices. MacPhee argues that recurring patterns of interiority, unity, balance, and purity in the organization of domestic life simultaneously generated an embodied index for discerning feelings of…

Book details

List price: $32.00
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Carolina Academic Press
Publication date: 10/1/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 224
Size: 6.00" wide x 8.75" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English

Marybeth J. MacPhee is a professor of anthropology at Roger Williams University.