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Healing powers and modernity : traditional medicine, shamanism, and science in Asian societies. edited by Linda H. Connor and Geoffrey Samuel

Connor, Linda (1950-...) Samuel, Geoffrey (1946-...) 2001

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  • Title:
    Healing powers and modernity : traditional medicine, shamanism, and science in Asian societies. edited by Linda H. Connor and Geoffrey Samuel
  • Author: Connor, Linda (1950-...);
    Samuel, Geoffrey (1946-...)
  • Subjects: Guérison -- Asie;
    Chamanisme -- Asie;
    Ethnomédecine -- Asie;
    Healing -- Asia;
    Social medicine -- Asia;
    Traditional medicine -- Asia;
    Shamanism -- Asia
  • Description: Bibliogr. Index.
    Healing powers in contemporary Asia / Linda H. Connor Healing in the modern state: Korea, Malaysia, and India. The cultural politics of "superstition" in the Korean Shaman world: modernity constructs its other / Laurel Kendall Tradition and change in Malay healing / Carol Laderman Modernity and the midwife: contestations over a subaltern figure, South India / Kalpana Ram The political ecology of health in India: indigestion as sign and symptom of defective modernization / Mark Nichter Healing on the margins: Malaysia, Indonesia, and China. Engaging the spirits of modernity: the Temiars / Marina Roseman Presence, efficacy, and politics in healing among the Iban of Sarawak / Amanda Harris Sorcery and science as competing models of explanation in a Sasak village / Cynthia L. Hunter Medicines and modernities in socialist China: medical pluralism, the state, and Naxi identities in the Lijiang Basin / Sydney D. White Healing, power, and identity in Tibetan societies. Tibetan medicine at the crossroads: radical modernity and the social organization of traditional medicine in the Tibet Autonomous Region, China / Craig R. Janes Particularizing modernity: Tibetan medical theorizing of women's health in Lhasa, Tibet / Vincanne Adams Tibetan medicine in contemporary India: theory and practice / Geoffrey Samuel Glossary of Tibetan terms
  • Publisher: Westport, CT : Bergin & Garvey, 2001
  • Creation Date: 2001
  • Format: 1 vol. (X-283 p.) : ill. ; 24 cm
  • Language: English
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