Healing Powers and Modernity
Subtitle: Traditional Medicine, Shamanism, and Science in Asian Societies
Contributors: Linda H. Connor (Editor); Geoffrey Samuel (Editor)
Publisher: Bergin & Garvey
Published: February 28, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 296
ISBN-13: 9780897897150
Subjects: Anthropology; Indigenous peoples; Medicine: General Issues; Traditional medicine & remedies; Traditional medicine; Medical; Medical Anthropology; Medical Geography; Archaeology / Anthropology; Social medicine; Shamanism; Anthropology - Cultural; Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural; Alternative Medicine; ASIA; Healing
First sentence: When we consider "modernity" not as an inevitable and unidirectional process, but rather, in Baudrillard's (1987) sense, as something like a viral ideology that has infected most of the globe but mutated, waxed, and sometimes waned in local settings (Rofel 1992), then new questions can be asked.