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ILLNESS, SELF, DISCOURSE AND SOCIETY STUDY OF MUTUAL INTERDEPENDENCY IN THE CONTEXT OF MINANGKABAU CULTURE

Jiří Majer


The topic of this article is connected with my field work in Indonesia within the context of Medical Anthropology. The aim of this article is to illustrate dialectical connection between concept of “self” and particular medical discourse and its treatment, while it reflects the importance of socio-cultural context which determine both this relation on its own and the form and content of the subjects of this relation. In addition it analyzes changes within one`s self which is influenced by assigned disea