Browsing Department of Social Anthropology by Subject "Poverty"
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"All they want is to be treated well": Public health care in the rural Ecuadorian Andes
(Master thesis, 2014-06-19)Abstract In thesis I describe the meeting between biomedical health care and indigenous patients in rural Ecuadorian Andes. I show how biomedical conceptualization of health and good treatment differs from local understandings. ... -
The Priviliged and the Poor. Being Rich amid the "lazy ignorant"
(Master thesis, 2009)The segregation of the privileged from the poor is found, produced and reproduced at several levels simultaneously. To notice who did what where, and with whom, was essential as I tried to learn the ways of my informants. ...