Charles L. Briggs is the Alan Dundes Distinguished Professor and Professor and Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley, and most recently coauthored Voices of Modernity (with Richard Bauman, 2003). Clara Mantini-Briggs, M.D. M.P.H., is an Associate Researcher in the Department of Demography and is affiliated with the PhD Program in Medical Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley and the Director of Fundacion para las Investigaciones Aplicadas Orinoco, which conducts research and initiates programs aimed at improving health conditions in Delta Amacuro, Venezuela.

"This harrowing and beautifully written account chronicles a complex array of social responses to an epidemic and shows us what an engaged and responsible anthropology can offer those seeking to understand and prevent such plagues - and the injustices that foster them." - Paul Farmer, author of Pathologies of Power"

• List of Illustrations Preface Acknowledgments Introduction: Death in the Delta 1. Preparing for a Bacterial Invasion: Cholera Control in Venezuela 2. Courtship of an Epidemic: Preparing for Cholera in Delta Amacuro 3. Stories of an Epidemic Foretold: Cholera Reaches Mariusa 4. Fighting Death in a Regional Clinic: Cholera Arrives in Pedernales 5. Turning Chaos into Control: Initial Responses by Regional Institutions 6. Containing an Indigenous Invasion: Quarantine in Barrancas 7. Exile and Internment: The Mariusans on La Tortuga 8. Medicine, Magic, and Military Might: Cholera Control on La Tortuga 9. Culture Equals Cholera: Official Explanations for the Epidemic 10. Challenging the Logic of Culture: Resistant Explanations for the Epidemic 11. Local Numbers and Global Power: The Role of Statistics 12. Sanitation and Global Citizenship: International Institutions and the Latin American Epidemic 13. Virulent Aftermath: The Consequences of the Epidemic Notes Bibliography Index

Charles L. Briggs is the Alan Dundes Distinguished Professor and Professor and Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley, and most recently coauthored Voices of Modernity (with Richard Bauman, 2003). Clara Mantini-Briggs, M.D. M.P.H., is an Associate Researcher in the Department of Demography and is affiliated with the PhD Program in Medical Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley and the Director of Fundacion para las Investigaciones Aplicadas Orinoco, which conducts research and initiates programs aimed at improving health conditions in Delta Amacuro, Venezuela.

"This harrowing and beautifully written account chronicles a complex array of social responses to an epidemic and shows us what an engaged and responsible anthropology can offer those seeking to understand and prevent such plagues - and the injustices that foster them." - Paul Farmer, author of Pathologies of Power"

• List of Illustrations Preface Acknowledgments Introduction: Death in the Delta 1. Preparing for a Bacterial Invasion: Cholera Control in Venezuela 2. Courtship of an Epidemic: Preparing for Cholera in Delta Amacuro 3. Stories of an Epidemic Foretold: Cholera Reaches Mariusa 4. Fighting Death in a Regional Clinic: Cholera Arrives in Pedernales 5. Turning Chaos into Control: Initial Responses by Regional Institutions 6. Containing an Indigenous Invasion: Quarantine in Barrancas 7. Exile and Internment: The Mariusans on La Tortuga 8. Medicine, Magic, and Military Might: Cholera Control on La Tortuga 9. Culture Equals Cholera: Official Explanations for the Epidemic 10. Challenging the Logic of Culture: Resistant Explanations for the Epidemic 11. Local Numbers and Global Power: The Role of Statistics 12. Sanitation and Global Citizenship: International Institutions and the Latin American Epidemic 13. Virulent Aftermath: The Consequences of the Epidemic Notes Bibliography Index

Charles L. Briggs is the Alan Dundes Distinguished Professor and Professor and Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley, and most recently coauthored Voices of Modernity (with Richard Bauman, 2003). Clara Mantini-Briggs, M.D. M.P.H., is an Associate Researcher in the Department of Demography and is affiliated with the PhD Program in Medical Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley and the Director of Fundacion para las Investigaciones Aplicadas Orinoco, which conducts research and initiates programs aimed at improving health conditions in Delta Amacuro, Venezuela.

"This harrowing and beautifully written account chronicles a complex array of social responses to an epidemic and shows us what an engaged and responsible anthropology can offer those seeking to understand and prevent such plagues - and the injustices that foster them." - Paul Farmer, author of Pathologies of Power"

• List of Illustrations Preface Acknowledgments Introduction: Death in the Delta 1. Preparing for a Bacterial Invasion: Cholera Control in Venezuela 2. Courtship of an Epidemic: Preparing for Cholera in Delta Amacuro 3. Stories of an Epidemic Foretold: Cholera Reaches Mariusa 4. Fighting Death in a Regional Clinic: Cholera Arrives in Pedernales 5. Turning Chaos into Control: Initial Responses by Regional Institutions 6. Containing an Indigenous Invasion: Quarantine in Barrancas 7. Exile and Internment: The Mariusans on La Tortuga 8. Medicine, Magic, and Military Might: Cholera Control on La Tortuga 9. Culture Equals Cholera: Official Explanations for the Epidemic 10. Challenging the Logic of Culture: Resistant Explanations for the Epidemic 11. Local Numbers and Global Power: The Role of Statistics 12. Sanitation and Global Citizenship: International Institutions and the Latin American Epidemic 13. Virulent Aftermath: The Consequences of the Epidemic Notes Bibliography Index