Malaria Entangled: Ribeirinhos, Plants, Mosquitoes, and Public Health Interventions in the Brazilian Amazon

This ethnographic study was conducted among the riverine people, also known as Ribeirinhos, in the state of Amazonas, Brazil, during four months of field research. The study focused on learning from Ribeirinhos’ experiences and practices of malaria. In this thesis, I argue that paying attention to R...

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Main Author: Machado Freitas de Souza, Luciane
Other Authors: Laplante, Julie
Language:en
Published: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa 2017
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10393/36156
http://dx.doi.org/10.20381/ruor-20436