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...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Latin American & Caribbean Anthropology Vol. 21; no. 3; pp. 434 - 457 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Nov2016
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