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UNINA9910809341303321 |
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Titolo |
Healing powers and modernity : traditional medicine, shamanism, and science in Asian societies / / edited by Linda H. Connor and Geoffrey Samuel |
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Westport, Conn. : , : Praeger, , 2001 |
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London : , : Bloomsbury Publishing, , 2024 |
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ISBN |
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979-84-00-66219-5 |
0-313-00276-2 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (295 p.) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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ConnorLinda <1950-> |
SamuelGeoffrey |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Healing - Asia |
Social medicine - Asia |
Traditional medicine - Asia |
Shamanism - Asia |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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""Contents""; ""Illustrations""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""A Note on Tibetan Spelling""; ""INTRODUCTION""; ""1 Healing Powers in Contemporary Asia""; ""HEALING IN THE MODERN STATE: KOREA, MALAYSIA, AND INDIA""; ""2 The Cultural Politics of “Superstition� in the Korean Shaman World: Modernity Constructs Its Other""; ""3 Tradition and Change in Malay Healing""; ""4 Modernity and the Midwife: Contestations Over a Subaltern Figure, South India""; ""5 The Political Ecology of Health in India: Indigestion as Sign and Symptom of Defective Modernization"" |
""HEALING ON THE MARGINS: MALAYSIA, INDONESIA, AND CHINA""""6 Engaging the Spirits of Modernity: The Temiars""; ""7 Presence, Efficacy, and Politics in Healing Among the Iban of Sarawak""; ""8 Sorcery and Science as Competing Models of Explanation in a Sasak Village""; ""9 Medicines andModernities in Socialist China: Medical Pluralism, the State, and Naxi Identities in the Lijiang Basin""; ""HEALING, POWER, AND IDENTITY IN TIBETAN SOCIETIES""; ""10 Tibetan Medicine at the |
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Crossroads: Radical Modernity and the Social Organization of Traditional Medicine in the Tibet Autonomous Region, China"" |
""11 Particularizing Modernity: Tibetan Medical Theorizingof Women�s Health in Lhasa, Tibet""""12 Tibetan Medicine in Contemporary India: Theory and Practice""; ""Glossary of Tibetan Terms""; ""Index""; ""About the Editors and Contributors"" |
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