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1 online resource (x, 283 pages) : illustrations |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Healing -- Asia.
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Healing. |
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Asia. |
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Social medicine -- Asia.
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Social medicine. |
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Traditional medicine -- Asia.
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Traditional medicine. |
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Shamanism -- Asia.
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Shamanism. |
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Medicine, Traditional. |
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Mental Healing. |
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Shamanism. |
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Social Medicine. |
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Asia. |
| Genre/Form |
Congress.
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Electronic books.
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Congressen (vorm)
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| Added Author |
Connor, Linda, 1950-
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Samuel, Geoffrey.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Healing powers and modernity. Westport, CT : Bergin & Garvey, 2000 0897897153 (DLC) 00029256 |
| ISBN |
0313002762 (electronic book) |
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9780313002762 (electronic book) |
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0897897153 (alkaline paper) |
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9780897897150 (alkaline paper) |
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