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...
Main Author: | Machado Freitas de Souza, Luciane |
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Other Authors: | Laplante, Julie |
Language: | en |
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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 |
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