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contagion: Guatemalen Women's Perceptions of Contagion in Disease

Description

This data set was collected by Weller (1983,1984) and used in Romney, et al. (1986). Twenty-four urban Guatemalen women were asked about the role of contagion in 27 diseases.

Usage

data(contagion)

Format

There are two objects: questions: list of diseases answermat: 24 by 27 matrix of responses

Source

Susan C. Weller (1983) New Data on Intracultural Variability: The Hot-cold Concept of Medicine and Illness. Human Organization 42(3): 249-257.

References

Kimball A. Romney, Susan C. Weller, and William H. Batchelder (1986). Culture as Consensus: A Theory of Culture and Informant Accuract. American Anthropologist 88(2)

Susan C. Weller (1984) Cross Cultural Concepts of Illness: Variation and Validation. American Anthropologist 86(2):341-351.

Examples

data(contagion)
contagion$questions
contagion$answermat