UID:
almafu_9959232734002883
Format:
1 online resource (295 p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
979-84-00-66219-5
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0-313-00276-2
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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""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""
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""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""
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""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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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-89789-715-3
Language:
English
DOI:
10.5040/9798400662195
