Time – Health – Culture

Cultural time concepts and health-related time preferences in Burkina Faso

Evelyn Wladarsch (Autor)

Buch

269 Seiten

2005
Reimer, Dietrich (Verlag)
978-3-496-02785-0 (ISBN)

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Time is an omnipresent fact of life which seems to be natural and universal, but which also varies cross-culturally.

The book demonstrates the usefulness of knowledge on cultural time conceptions for the understanding of local cultures in general (what is important within anthropology) and for health-related issues in particular (what reveals the interdisciplinary relevance of time studies). By comparing the important health economical concept of 'time preference' with local notions and practices pertaining to time in rural Burkina Faso, the transferability of a Western temporal concept to a non-Western - here Burkinabè - context is tested and evaluated. The book hence shows the significance of socio-cultural time studies for epistemological as well as applied and interdisciplinary scientific interests.

Evelyn Wladarsch; studied Anthropology in Heidelberg, with a focus on medical anthropology; fieldwork in a German hospital and in Burkina Faso; PhD in 2004; several talks on medical anthropology and on cultural time; lecturer at the Institute of Ethnology in Heidelberg; numerous publications.

Zusatzinfo	2 Tab., Glossar
Verlagsort	Berlin
Sprache	englisch
Maße	170 x 240 mm
Gewicht	588 g
Einbandart	Paperback
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie ► Völkerkunde (Naturvölker)
Schlagworte	Burkina Faso • Ethnologie • Ethnomedizin • HC/Ethnologie/Völkerkunde • Zeitbegriff • Zeitwahrnehmung
ISBN-10	3-496-02785-1 / 3496027851
ISBN-13	978-3-496-02785-0 / 9783496027850
Zustand	Neuware