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By John M Janzen; William Arkinstall

''In this booklet, Dr. John M. Janzen describes styles of therapeutic one of the BaKongo of decrease Zaire in Africa, who, like many peoples somewhere else, make the most of cosmopolitan medication along conventional therapeutic practices. What standards, he asks, be sure the alternative of the choice cures? and what's their institutional interrelationship? In looking solutions, he analyzes case histories and cultural contexts to explore Read more...

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The introductions he was writing to his project proposals were ethnographic treatises in their own right, effortlessly citing demographic statistics alongside observations about the sexual lives of urban youth and incisive analyses about the cultural barriers to addressing issues of sexuality. Development agencies had been quick to respond, and Jeunes sans frontières had already been carrying out family planning education campaigns for two years. As a result, the organization had chapters in over a dozen neighborhoods.

Etc. ”; etc. It is preferable that the person you are helping responds by truly describing her emotions—she should be encouraged to speak in her name, in the first 42 • • • chapter two person. For example, if she says “They are telling me that I am depressed,” encourage her to say what she really feels. S. military in the wake of the Second World War. Initially designed with the aim of building cohesion within military units, they were subsequently refined in a quest to facilitate racial integration after the Second World War, before being taken up by business schools to train future managers.

Testimonials had become valuable capital for the institutions that could furnish them, and as a result they were prepared to pay. Issa’s story—as told by the letter in the paper—was exactly the kind of testimonial the government sought, something that Abdoulaye was not yet quite aware of when he read the letter and testimonials that bind • • • 31 invited Issa to join the association in 1995. For Abdoulaye, and Jeunes sans frontières, however testimonials could not be reduced to simple transactions.

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