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Healing powers and modernity : traditional medicine, shamanism, and science in Asian societies

Author: Linda Connor; Geoffrey Samuel
Publisher: Westport, CT : Bergin & Garvey, 2001.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Genre/Form: Congresses
Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Linda Connor; Geoffrey Samuel
ISBN: 0897897153 9780897897150
OCLC Number: 43662134
Description: xiii, 283 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Contents: 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.
Responsibility: edited by Linda H. Connor and Geoffrey Samuel.

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