Segmentary lineage system and health among the Pashtun of Afghanistan

Emerging trends in health problems and failing public health policies generally and in epidemic or pandemic situation in particular cannot be understood without an appreciation of underlying social structures. The understanding of the organization and social structure of the Pashtun society in Afghanistan is allowed by ethnographic research carried out within the family and lineage, physical and political places within which the crisis induced by the TB epidemic is expressed in the violence of a social drama. And it is not the underlying social structures who should be changed, according to the Author, but the public health policies. In this specific case it is the international health policies for the distribution of therapies that need to be changed. Recognising the roles of husband and wife in the tribal context, i.e. the constellation of related expectations, as well as the specificity of the crisis situation within the lineage, requires a different and contextual health policy

Prefazione

La via d’uscita dal tentativo di globalistica riduzione dell’antropologia a semplice tekhne e raccolta protocollare di dati può e deve essere ritrovata in un rinnovato rapporto con la ricerca sul terreno. L’antropologia applicata, intesa come impegno sociale di una pratica quotidiana di relazione all’Altro, mostra in questa raccolta di articoli di giovani ricercatori italiani tutte le sue potenzialità di costruttrice di socialità, affrancando la disciplina dal ruolo al quale spesso la si è voluta destinare: ancilla del colonialismo ieri e della globalizzazione oggi o semplice e autoreferente esercizio intellettuale relativo a esotismi e varie curiosità, di fatto funzionale allo status quo

Qu’est-ce qu’un laboratoire d’ethnographie? Une introduction…

The anthropologist returning from long periods of fieldwork often wonders how to break the solitude instituted by his newly acquired knowledge or presumed knowledge: “To whom to confide what happened on the field, even what can never be made public? With whom to continue the complex dialogue begun on the field and before? From whom to expect a critique as radical as it is creative?”. The Ethnography lab is configured as the place and time in which if one does not find answers to many questions, one will find questions that will lead to many answers. In an era of reflexive deficiency, an era dominated by the tekhne and main stream thinking, the author argues, the Ethnography lab represents a kind of free zone in which to exercise reflexive criticism in all freedom of thought, with the certainty of receiving continuous food for thought, not keywords imposed by the dominant relations, i.e. by the administrative apparatus and bureaucratic diktats, often so harmful to the academy and the dialogical construction of knowledge. The case discussed by the author is the Laboratoire d’ethnographie de Rennes, France

DADA Rivista di Antropologia post-globale

none1openAntonio Luigi PalmisanoPalmisano, Antonio Luig

Antropologia Pubblica

none1openAntonio Luigi PalmisanoPalmisano, Antonio Luig