Essays about: "Anna Kovasna"

Found 1 essay containing the words Anna Kovasna.

  1. 1. Building Bodies, Balancing Powers ‐ of Insides, Outsides and Changing Notions of Personhood Among the Matses of the Western Amazon

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Socialantropologi

    Author : Anna Kovasna; [2009]
    Keywords : Peru; personhood; Matses; social reproduction; illness; Amazon; gender; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : This Masters thesis in Social Anthropology is based on fieldwork carried out among the Matses in the Peruvian Amazon. The study examines local notions of male and female personhood, illness and medicine as well as how these are changing in the current context characterized by an increasing integration of Matses and national society. READ MORE