I can't tell you all my troubles

Conflict, resistance, and metacommunication in Bangladeshi illness interactions

Dados Bibliográficos

ID2467220
AutoresJames M Wilce (0000-0001-6363-4092, Northern Arizona University, autor correspondente)
Ano1995
Volume22
Fascículo4
Páginas927-952
Data de publicação1995-11-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoAmerican Ethnologist (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0094-0496 • E-ISSN: 1548-1425
EditoraWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1525/ae.1995.22.4.02a00140
OpenAlexW2104435259
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas18
Referências citadas33

Transcripts of interactions between patients, kin, and healers open up the lives of fourrogi ("sick ones" or "patients") in Matlab, Bangladesh. I compare the pattern of domination and resistance in those interactions with Western biomedical encounters. Patients in Matlab express dissatisfaction with the power relations of family or medicine through low-level means that do not enter discursive consciousness. By indirectly calling attention to the suppression of their voices, patients' metacomplaints-a species of metacommunication evident in two of the interactions-entail an incipient cultural criticism

Consciousness · Criticism · Political science · Power (physics · Resistance (ecology · Sociology · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Ecology · Gender Studies · Law · Psychology · Social Psychology · South Asian Studies and Conflicts · Vaccine Coverage and Hesitancy