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Article: Dialogue and the interpretation of illness: conversations in a Cameroon village.(Review)
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- January 1, 2000
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ROBERT POOL, Dialogue and the Interpretation of Illness: conversations in a Cameroon village. Explorations in Anthropology series, Oxford: Berg, 1994, 285 pp., 39.95 [pounds sterling], ISBN 0 85496 873 3 hard covers, 14.95 [pounds sterling], ISBN 085973 016 7 paperback.
This is an original and thought-provoking book. Now that the first excitement over `postmodern' anthropology's attack on anthropological fieldwork methods has died down, its broader relevance is more easily seen. It is certainly influenced by `postmodern' anthropology (Pool clearly does not like this label and prefers `experimental ethnography'), as is clear from the sound and yet imaginative use ...