Format:
1 online resource (295 pages)
ISBN:
9780313002762
Content:
Intro -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- A Note on Tibetan Spelling -- INTRODUCTION -- 1 Healing Powers in Contemporary Asia -- HEALING IN THE MODERN STATE: KOREA, MALAYSIA, AND INDIA -- 2 The Cultural Politics of "Superstition" in the Korean Shaman World: Modernity Constructs Its Other -- 3 Tradition and Change in Malay Healing -- 4 Modernity and the Midwife: Contestations Over a Subaltern Figure, South India -- 5 The Political Ecology of Health in India: Indigestion as Sign and Symptom of Defective Modernization -- HEALING ON THE MARGINS: MALAYSIA, INDONESIA, AND CHINA -- 6 Engaging the Spirits of Modernity: The Temiars -- 7 Presence, Efficacy, and Politics in Healing Among the Iban of Sarawak -- 8 Sorcery and Science as Competing Models of Explanation in a Sasak Village -- 9 Medicines andModernities in Socialist China: Medical Pluralism, the State, and Naxi Identities in the Lijiang Basin -- HEALING, POWER, AND IDENTITY IN TIBETAN SOCIETIES -- 10 Tibetan Medicine at the Crossroads: Radical Modernity and the Social Organization of Traditional Medicine in the Tibet Autonomous Region, China -- 11 Particularizing Modernity: Tibetan Medical Theorizingof Women's Health in Lhasa, Tibet -- 12 Tibetan Medicine in Contemporary India: Theory and Practice -- Glossary of Tibetan Terms -- Index -- About the Editors and Contributors.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780897897150
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780897897150
Language:
English
URL:
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