Healing Powers and Modernity (eBook, PDF)

Traditional Medicine, Shamanism, and Science in Asian Societies
Redaktion: Connor, Linda H.; Samuel, Geoffrey

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Produktbeschreibung

What is the current state of traditional healing practices in contemporary Asian societies? How are their practitioners faring in the encounter with Western science and its biomedical approach? How are traditional healing practices being transformed by the politics of health within the modern nation-state and by the processes of commodification typical of modern economies? How do patients in Asian societies see the various healing options now open to them?

The authors, all of whom are anthropologists, observe the clashes and complementarities between traditional therapies and biomedicine, which, in its many manifestations, is the dominant form of medicine supported by national governments, and is emblematic of the modernity to which they aspire. Some of the medical traditions, such as the sophisticated herbal-humoral systems of Tibetan medicine and Indian Ayurveda, are becoming well known in the West, both through scholarly study and through their increasing popularity with Western patients interested in their healing potential. This book adds a new dimension to their study, being focused unlike most previous writing on practice rather than textual tradition.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Altersempfehlung: ab 7 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Februar 2001
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780313002762
• Artikelnr.: 68528854

Autorenporträt

LINDA H. CONNOR is Associate Professor, Department of Sociology & Anthropology, The University of Newcastle, Australia./e GEOFFREY SAMUEL is Professor of Anthropology, The University of New Castle, Australia./e

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Healing Powers in Contemporary Asia by 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 by Laurel Kendall Tradition and Change in Malay Healing by Carol
Laderman Modernity and the Midwife: Contestations Over a Subaltern Figure,
South India by Kalpana Ram The Political Ecology of Health in India:
Indigestion as Sign and Symptom of Defective Modernization by Mark Nichter
Healing on the Margins: Malaysia, Indonesia, and China Engaging the Spirits
of Modernity: The Temiars by Marina Roseman Presence, Efficacy, and
Politics in Healing Among the Iban of Sarawak by Amanda Harris Sorcery and
Science as Competing Models of Explanation in a Sasak Village by Cynthia L.
Hunter Medicines and Modernities in Socialist China: Medical Pluralism, the
State, and Naxi Identities in the Lijiang Basin by 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 by Craig R. Janes Partuclarizing
Modernity: Tibetan Medical Theorizing of Women's Health in Lhasa, Tibet by
Vincanne Adams Tibetan Medicine in Contemporary India: Theory and Practice
by Geoffrey Samuel Glossary of Tibetoan Terms Index