Elisabeth Hsu, Chris Low

Wind, Life, Health

Anthropological and Historical Perspectives

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Produktbeschreibung

Since our first primordial breath, wind has been a central theme of cultural thought. Wind in its different guises - from the natural phenomenon of air in motion, to embodied life giving experiences and deities and spirits - has contributed to the richness of human ideas and practices from ancient cultures to this very day.

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Published as part of The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute Special Issue Book Series, and through a series of thought-provoking articles, Wind, Life, Health: Anthropological and Historical Perspectives examines the richness of human ideas surrounding wind in all its manifestations - breath, spirit, sentiment, life, and health.
_ Examines the richness of human ideas and practices surrounding wind, life, and health
_ Features articles covering a wide range of themes including landscape, weather, body, perception, emplacement, climate, seasons, song, and music
_ Conveys how different peoples have grappled with winds and spirits and how their experiences have shaped their world
_ Explores a range of cultures: hunters and gatherers in the polar regions, inhabitants of the Malaysian rain forest, Andaman Islands, ancient India, China, Greece, Muslim East Africa, Victorian England, and mountain-dwelling Swiss

Produktdetails

• Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute Special Issue Book Series
• Verlag: Wiley & Sons
• 1. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 172mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 346g
• ISBN-13: 9781405178938
• ISBN-10: 1405178930
• Artikelnr.: 23505401

Autorenporträt

Elisabeth Hsu is Reader in Social Anthropology, Convenor of the Masters courses in Medical Anthropology at the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology of the University of Oxford, and Fellow of Green College. Her current research on Chinese medicine explores themes of touch, pain and feelings. Chris Low, a postdoctorate at Oxford, holds an ESRC Research Fellowship and is currently involved with research on the changing relationships between animals, Bushmen, and Bushman medicine.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface (Elisabeth Hsu and Chris Low). Introduction (Chris Low and
Elisabeth Hsu). 1. Earth, sky, wind, and weather (Tim Ingold). 2. Wafting
on the wind: smell and the cycle of spirit and matter (David Parkin). 3.
Blowing 'cross the crest of Mount Galeng': winds of the voice, winds of the
spirits (Marina Roseman). 4. Khoisan wind: hunting and healing (Chris Low).
5. Time to move: winds and the political economy of space in Andamanese
culture (Vishvajit Pandya). 6. The bodily winds in ancient India revisited
(Kenneth G. Zysk). 7. The experience of wind in early and medieval Chinese
medicine (Elisabeth Hsu). 8. Pneuma between body and soul (Geoffrey Lloyd).
9. Gruff boreas, deadly calms: a medical perspective on winds and the
Victorians (Vladimir Jankovic). 10. An ill wind: the Foehn in Leukerbad and
beyond (Sarah Strauss). Index.