Find a copy online
Links to this item
Find a copy in the library
Finding libraries that hold this item...
Details
| 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. |
Abstract:
Annotation
Annotation
Reviews
User-contributed reviews
Add a review and share your thoughts with other readers.
Be the first.
Add a review and share your thoughts with other readers.
Be the first.
Tags
Add tags for "Healing powers and modernity : traditional medicine, shamanism, and science in Asian societies".
Be the first.
Similar Items
Related Subjects:(16)
- Healing -- Asia.
- Social medicine -- Asia.
- Traditional medicine -- Asia.
- Shamanism -- Asia.
- Medicine, Traditional -- Asia -- Congresses.
- Mental Healing -- Asia -- Congresses.
- Shamanism -- Asia -- Congresses.
- Social Medicine -- Asia -- Congresses.
- Guérison -- Asie.
- Médecine sociale -- Asie.
- Médecine traditionnelle -- Asie.
- Chamanisme -- Asie.
- Geneeskunde.
- Volksgeneeskunde.
- Sjamanisme.
- Ethnomédecine -- Asie.
User lists with this item (4)
- Korean Shamanism(73 items)
by npuritan updated about 7 hours ago
- Korea Paper(220 items)
by rebecca.weber@mail.mcgill.ca updated 2010-11-15
- OKSocial change_China_02(250 items)
by topnet updated 2009-02-13
- Tibet Health Books(5 items)
by Geolani.Dy updated 2007-10-22

