Healing powers and modernity [[electronic resource] ] : traditional medicine, shamanism, and science in Asian societies / / edited by Linda H. Connor and Geoffrey Samuel
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| Titolo: |
Healing powers and modernity [[electronic resource] ] : traditional medicine, shamanism, and science in Asian societies / / edited by Linda H. Connor and Geoffrey Samuel
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| Pubblicazione: | Westport, CT, : Bergin & Garvey, 2000 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (295 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 615.5/095 |
| Soggetto topico: | Healing - Asia |
| Social medicine - Asia | |
| Traditional medicine - Asia | |
| Shamanism - Asia | |
| Altri autori: |
ConnorLinda <1950->
SamuelGeoffrey
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| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | ""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 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"" | |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Healing powers and modernity |
| ISBN: | 0-313-00276-2 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910780166603321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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