Embodied Protests examines how Bolivia's hesitant courtship with globalization manifested in the visceral and emotional diseases that afflicted many Bolivian women. Drawing on case studies conducted among market- and working-class women in the provincial town of Punata, Maria Tapias examines how headaches and debilidad, so-called normal bouts of infant diarrhea, and the malaise oppressing whole communities were symptomatic of profound social suffering. She approaches the narratives of distress caused by poverty, domestic violence, and the failure of social networks as constituting the knowledge that shaped their understandings of well-being. At the crux of Tapias's definitive analysis is the idea that individual health perceptions, actions, and practices cannot be separated from local cultural narratives or from global and economic forces. Evocative and compassionate, Embodied Protests gives voice to the human costs of the ongoing neoliberal experiment.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
University of Illinois Press
ISBN-13
9780252080746
eBay Product ID (ePID)
212344970
Product Key Features
Author
Maria Tapias
Publication Name
Embodied Protests: Emotions and Women's Health in Bolivia
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Subject
Zoology, Anthropology, History
Publication Year
2015
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
176 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
229mm
Item Width
152mm
Additional Product Features
Title_Author
Maria Tapias
Series Title
Interp Culture New Millennium
Country/Region of Manufacture
United States
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