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The Maring first encountered the West in the early 1950s when Anglican missionaries, seeking to spread the Word of God, opened outposts at Koinambe and Simbai. But Maring were little interested in the Gospel per se, rather they sought God’s power as invested in trade store and hospital. From the outset, the advent of medical care was inseparable from more global social transformation.
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The paper is based on 21 months field work among the Maring; four months in 1974 and sixteen months in 1979–1980. I would like to thank Sarah Keene Meltzoff, Roy Rappaport and Cherry Lowman for their suggestions and comments. To avoid confusion, I should note that I use Western medicine and biomedicine, and indigenous medicine and ethnomedicine, interchangeably.
For more detailed accounts of social organization, economy, and politics see Rappaport (1968), Lowman (1971), and LiPuma (1985b).
See Sahlins (1976: 73–96) for a discussion of function and the role of instrumental logic in anthropological explanations.
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Lipuma, E. (1989). Modernity and Medicine Among the Maring. In: Frankel, S., Lewis, G. (eds) A Continuing Trial of Treatment. Culture, Illness, and Healing, vol 14. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-2731-5_13
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