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Incommunicable
In Incommunicable, Charles L. Briggs examines the long-standing presumptions that medical discourse translates easily across geographic, racial, and class boundaries. Bringing …
Learning How to Ask
Interviews are ubiquitous in modern society, and they play a crucial role in social scientific research. But, as Charles Briggs convincingly argues in this book, received …
Making Health Public
This book examines the relationship between media and medicine, considering the fundamental role of news coverage in constructing wider cultural understandings of health and …
Voices of Modernity
Language and tradition have long been relegated to the sidelines as scholars have considered the role of politics, science, technology and economics in the making of the modern …
Learning How to Ask
Interviews are ubiquitous in modern society, and they play a crucial role in social scientific research. But, as Charles Briggs convincingly argues in this book, received …
Stories in the Time of Cholera
Cholera, although it can kill an adult through dehydration in half a day, is easily treated. Yet in 1992-93, some five hundred people died from cholera in the Orinoco Delta of …
Unlearning
A provocative theoretical synthesis by renowned folklorist and anthropologist Charles L. Briggs, Unlearning questions intellectual foundations and charts new paths forward. Briggs …
Making Health Public
This book examines the relationship between media and medicine, considering the fundamental role of news coverage in constructing wider cultural understandings of health and …
Tell Me Why My Children Died
Tell Me Why My Children Died tells the gripping story of indigenous leaders' efforts to identify a strange disease that killed thirty-two children and six young adults in a …
Tell Me Why My Children Died
Tell Me Why My Children Died tells the gripping story of indigenous leaders' efforts to identify a strange disease that killed thirty-two children and six young adults in a …
The Lost Gold Mine of Juan Mondragon
Lost Gold Mine of Juan Mondragon
Spanish and English version of Historia de la mina perdida de Juan Mondragon, with editorial matter in English. Includes bibliographical references (p. [249-262]) and index.