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Boiling Spirits
This is a great story with many applications: There’s an oft told anecdote about a medical missionary in a remote place, who watches, in horror, as people give untreated well water to their babies. The children regularly get diarrhea, and … Continue reading
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Tagged anthropology, belief, communication, culture, health, language, missionary, morality, myth, spirits, translating, understanding, value, witchcraft
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