Healing powers and modernity
Subtitle: traditional medicine, shamanism, and science in Asian societies
By: edited by Linda H. Connor and Geoffrey Samuel
Contributors: Connor, Linda, 1950-; Samuel, Geoffrey
Publisher: Bergin & Garvey
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Westport, Conn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 283
Subjects: Healing -- Asia; Social medicine -- Asia; Traditional medicine -- Asia; Shamanism -- Asia
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
Table of contents: title: Healing powers in contemporary Asia / Linda H. Connor; title: 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; title: Tradition and change in Malay healing / Carol Laderman; title: Modernity and the midwife: contestations over a subaltern figure, South India / Kalpana Ram; title: The political ecology of health in India: indigestion as sign and symptom of defective modernization / Mark Nichter; title: Healing on the margins: Malaysia, Indonesia, and China. Engaging the spirits of modernity: the Temiars / Marina Roseman; title: Presence, efficacy, and politics in healing among the Iban of Sarawak / Amanda Harris; title: Sorcery and science as competing models of explanation in a Sasak village / Cynthia L. Hunter; title: Medicines and modernities in socialist China: medical pluralism, the state, and Naxi identities in the Lijiang Basin / Sydney D. White; title: 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; title: Particularizing modernity: Tibetan medical theorizing of women's health in Lhasa, Tibet / Vincanne Adams; title: Tibetan medicine in contemporary India: theory and practice / Geoffrey Samuel; title: Glossary of Tibetan terms