Anthropology of the perception of microbes and infectious diseases in sub-Saharan Africa

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This seminar looked at the semantics of vernacular languages in West Africa and the symbolic charge they carry in populations where infectious diseases, particularly pediatric ones, are still very prevalent.

Anthropology of the perception of microbes and infectious diseases in sub-Saharan Africa

Speaker(s)

Tamara Giles-Vernick

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