Abstract
The ethical dilemmas of amateur doctoring in the field are not limited to those surrounding the provision of medical care by inexperienced and untrained anthropologists. Host communities may ask, even demand that anthropologists play this role, particularly when the signifying practices of local medicine have important social referents. I discuss aspects of the ethical dilemmas presented by such circumstances among the Kulina of western Brazil.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 149-157 |
| Number of pages | 9 |
| Journal | Anthropological Quarterly |
| Volume | 69 |
| Issue number | 3 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Jul 1996 |
Keywords
- Amazonia
- Ethics
- Ethnomedicine
- Kulina
- Witchcraft
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