Document Type

Honors Project

Publication Date

6-4-2014

Abstract

This paper comprises a critical, ethnographic study of health communication in a rural community of Amazonian Ecuador. By synthesizing approaches from anthropology, discourse studies, and public health, the study explores how conversations influence health decisions, how communities understand health systems, and how macrostructural discourse changes the political economy of healthcare in Ecuador. My work draws on the recent theoretical development of ‘biocommunicability’ in anthropology as well as earlier sociological research on knowledge construction. Most importantly, this paper offers a critique of current interventions by NGOs in the region.

Level of Honors

magna cum laude

Department

Anthropology

Advisor

Mary Good

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Advisor: Mary Good

Level of Honors: magna cum laude

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