CHILD’S COMPETENCES IN CHRONIC ILLNESS: Culture and consumption of herbal medicine among Nigerian women.
Journal Title: Miscellanea Anthropologica et Sociologica - Year 2017, Vol 18, Issue 3
Abstract
the concepts of culture and consumption are crucial to the understanding of consumer health culture and behaviour in contemporary societies. Through the exploration of the social world, they reflect people’s interest through their consumption pattern as individuals or members of a group. Consumption as Bourdieu describes it, is the formation of habits through social processes and activities. This paper focuses its arguments based on these existing theories of the sociology of consumption and the sociology of health and illness in explaining the use of herbal medicine among Nigerian women in everyday lives, prevention and treatment of illness, diseases and other ailments in the family as part of cultural practices in the 21st century. Consumption of herbal medicine among African women represents cultural practices and traditional beliefs handed down from one generation to the next. I argue that the health behaviour of Nigerian women is influenced by consumption pattern and it is central to their choice of herbal medicine as a default of their culture, ethnic orientation and social practices.<br/><br/>
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Omoye M. Akhagba
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