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Health and Wealth on the Bosnian Market: Intimate Debt

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Description for Health and Wealth on the Bosnian Market: Intimate Debt Paperback. Num Pages: 296 pages, 4 b&w illus. BIC Classification: 1DVWYB; 3JJPR; 3JM; JHMC; KCP; MBN; MBP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 17. Weight in Grams: 439.

Larisa Jasarevic offers an unforgettable look at the everyday experiences of people living in post-socialist, post-war Bosnia. Not at all existing on the world's margins, Bosnians today are concerned with the good life and are as entangled in consumer debt as everyone else. The insecurities of living in an economy dominated by informal networks of trade, personal credit, and indebtedness are experienced by Bosnians in terms of physical ailments, some not recognized by Western medical science. Jasarevic follows ordinary Bosnians in their search for treatment—from use of pharmaceuticals to alternative medicines and folk healers of various kinds. Financial well-being and ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Indiana University Press United States
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
Number of Pages
298
Place of Publication
Bloomington, IN, United States
ISBN
9780253023827
SKU
V9780253023827
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99-50

About Larisa Jasarevic
Larisa Jasarevic is Senior Lecturer in the Global and International Studies Program at the University of Chicago. An anthropologist, she is interested in bodies, natures, and popular knowledge in contemporary Bosnia.

Reviews for Health and Wealth on the Bosnian Market: Intimate Debt
For scholars working on health and medicine across any number of disciplines, subfields, and regions, this book can serve as an example of how to make use of these conceptual categories without being beholden to them. Perhaps most of all, the book provides a service by moving beyond the emphasis on ethnicity that has dominated most academic work on the ... Read more

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