Restoring the balance : performing healing in West Papua / Ien Courtens.
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TextSeries: Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde ; 241.Publication details: Leiden : KITLV Press, ©2008.Description: 1 online resource (xii, 252 pages) : illustrations, mapContent type: - text
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- Catholic Church -- Missions -- Indonesia -- Papua
- Église catholique -- Missions -- Indonésie -- Papouasie occidentale
- Catholic Church
- Mejprat (New Guinean people) -- Medical care
- Mejprat (New Guinean people) -- Medical care -- Religious aspects
- Traditional medicine -- Indonesia -- Papua
- Medical care -- Indonesia -- Papua
- Healing -- Indonesia -- Papua
- Folklore -- Performance -- Indonesia -- Papua
- Catholic hospitals -- Indonesia -- Papua
- Christianity
- Medical care
- Medicine -- Religious aspects
- Social change
- Medicine, Traditional
- Christianity
- Delivery of Health Care
- Missions and Missionaries
- Religion and Medicine
- Social Change
- Indonesia
- Mejprat (Peuple de Nouvelle-Guinée) -- Soins médicaux
- Mejprat (Peuple de Nouvelle-Guinée) -- Soins médicaux -- Aspect religieux
- Guérison -- Indonésie -- Papouasie occidentale
- Folklore -- Interprétation -- Indonésie -- Papouasie occidentale
- Hôpitaux catholiques -- Indonésie -- Papouasie occidentale
- Christianisme
- Prestation de soins
- Médecine -- Aspect religieux
- Changement social
- Christianity
- POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture
- Catholic hospitals
- Folklore -- Performance
- Healing
- Medical care
- Missions
- Traditional medicine
- Indonesia -- Papua
- Ethnomedizin
- Heiler
- Ärztliche Mission
- Provinz Papua
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- DU744.35.M42 C687 2008eb
- 2009 D-212
- WB 55
- LC 33420
- LC 56420
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Rev. version of the author's doctoral thesis, Radboud University Nijmegen.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-246) and index.
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RESTORING THE BALANCE; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Chapter I Performing healing ; An introduction; Chapter II Mama Raja; The case; Chapter III Spirits of the living; Chapter IV Spirits of the underworld; Chapter V Performing indigenous healing; Chapter VI The missionary hospital; Chapter VII Mama Raja; The case continues; Chapter VIII Knowing God's mysteries; Chapter IX Walking together; Chapter X Performing healing; Conclusion; Epilogue; Appendix Healing plants; Glossary; Bibliography; Index
The study offers an ethnographically rich journey through the variety of healing methods in current Ayfat society: indigenous (obtained during female and male initiation rites), biomedical (the missionary hospital), and Christian (created by ritual healers since the coming of the missionaries). Likewise, the causes ascribed to illness range from sorcery, witchcraft, violation of ancestral or biblical rules, to biomedical conditions, a multiplicity of ways of understanding illness and healing that emerged in the context of religious change. Making choices among the variety of healing performanc.
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