Essays about: "Maarten van der Bent"

Found 1 essay containing the words Maarten van der Bent.

  1. 1. “It’s two things mixed together!” : A Baptist missionary nurse and her symbiotic relationship with Ndyuka medicine

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för kulturantropologi och etnologi

    Author : Maarten van der Bent; [2017]
    Keywords : missionary medicine; Ndyuka medicine; interaction; symbiosis; ‘othering’;

    Abstract : This thesis analyses the interaction between missionary medicine and Ndyuka medicine from the perspective of a Baptist missionary nurse operating a clinic in the village of Lantiwei in Suriname. Based on two months of anthropological fieldwork conducted in the summer of 2014, this thesis argues that in her everyday practice of medicine, the Baptist nurse is dependent on the cooperation of a local Ndyuka healer and his family to such an extent that their working together can be regarded as a social form of symbiosis. READ MORE