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Eirik Saethre: Illness is a Weapon

I decided to become an anthropologist after completing three months of intensive summer fieldwork as an undergraduate. Conducting research in a Spiritualist camp and training to be a medium, I discovered that participation provides insight that observation alone does not. Since then, I have completed projects on three continents and consider myself a serial ethnographer. My academic experiences are equally diverse. I have studied or served as a fellow at universities in Scotland, Australia, South Africa, and Serbia.

Saethre E. Illness Is a Weapon : Indigenous Identity and Enduring Afflictions. Vanderbilt University Press; 2013.

This book can be purchased from the Red Kangaroo bookshop in Alice Springs. Below are pdf files for those unable to secure a copy of the book.

• Title Page
• Table of Contents
• Glossary
• Notes
• References
• Index
• Chapter 5 – Non-compliance
• Chapter 1 – Everyday Illness