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By Charles L. Briggs, with Clara Mantini-Briggs. 430 pp., illustrated. Berkeley, University of California Press, 2003. $34.95. ISBN 0-520-23031-0.

Stories in the Time of Cholera (not to be confused with the novel Love in the Time of Cholera, by Nobel laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez) is a sociological analysis of a cholera outbreak in the delta region of the Orinoco River in eastern Venezuela in 1992 and 1993. One of the authors, Charles L. Briggs, Ph.D., trained in social anthropology and sociolinguistics and is professor of ethnic studies at the University of California, San Diego. He has worked in Venezuela since 1986 and is conversant in Warao, an indigenous language. He met his wife, coauthor Clara Mantini-Briggs, M.D., M.P.H., during . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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