Opening a Path with Papers: Yanomami Health Agents and Their Use of Medical Documents.

This article explores how Yanomami health agents use and produce documents in Upper Orinoco health posts in Venezuela. In recent decades, a growing number of Yanomami people have learned to read, write, and count, and to make use of different kinds of documents. Yanomami health agents are a particul...

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Publicado en:	Journal of Latin American & Caribbean Anthropology Vol. 21; no. 3; pp. 434 - 457
Autor principal:	Gonçalves Martín, Johanna
Formato:	Artículo
Publicado:	Wiley-Blackwell Nov2016
Materias:	Venezuela Medical care Ethnology Diseases Yanomami (South American people) Indigenous peoples of Venezuela
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