TY  - BOOK
AU  - Connor,Linda
AU  - Samuel,Geoffrey
TI  - Healing powers and modernity: traditional medicine, shamanism, and science in Asian societies 
SN  - 0313002762
AV  - RA418.3.A78 H43 2000eb
U1  - 615.5/095 21
PY  - 2000///
CY  - Westport, CT
PB  - Bergin & Garvey
KW  - Healing
KW  - Asia
KW  - Social medicine
KW  - Traditional medicine
KW  - Shamanism
KW  - Mental healing
KW  - Medicine, Traditional
KW  - Mental Healing
KW  - Social Medicine
KW  - Guérison
KW  - Asie
KW  - Médecine sociale
KW  - Médecine traditionnelle
KW  - Chamanisme
KW  - Guérison par l'esprit
KW  - shamanism
KW  - aat
KW  - HEALTH & FITNESS
KW  - Alternative Therapies
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - MEDICAL
KW  - BODY, MIND & SPIRIT
KW  - General
KW  - fast
KW  - Ethnomedizin
KW  - gnd
KW  - Naturheilkunde
KW  - Schamanismus
KW  - Sozialer Wandel
KW  - Geneeskunde
KW  - gtt
KW  - Volksgeneeskunde
KW  - Sjamanisme
KW  - ram
KW  - Ethnomédecine
KW  - Asien
KW  - Azië
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - Congress
KW  - Congressen (vorm)
KW  - lcgft
KW  - Conference papers and proceedings
KW  - Actes de congrès
KW  - rvmgf
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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
N2  - Annotation; Explores the effects of modernity on traditional healing systems of Asia and interactions between traditional and "Western" medicine; Annotation; Connor and Samuel explore the present state of a range of healing traditions in their Asian locales. The peoples examined include relatively remote populations such as the Iban of Sarawak, the Temiar of Malaysia, and the Sasak of Lomboko, as well as rural South Indians and Malays, the people of South Korea's modern industrial cities, and Tibetans both in Chinese-controlled Tibet and in the refugee settlements of North India
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