Healing Powers and Modernity Traditional Medicine, Shamanism, and Science in Asian Societies

Name: Healing Powers and Modernity Traditional Medicine, Shamanism, and Science in Asian Societies
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ISBN: 9780897897150

ISBN-10: 0897897153

ISBN-13: 9780897897150

Edition: 2000

Authors: Linda H. Connor, Geoffrey Samuel

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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,…

Book details

List price: $95.00
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Publication date: 2/28/2001
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 296
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.21" long x 0.69" tall
Weight: 1.298



Illustrations


Acknowledgments


A Note on Tibetan Spelling


Introduction



Healing Powers in Contemporary Asia




Healing in the Modern State: Korea, Malaysia, and India



The Cultural Politics of "Superstition" in the Korean Shaman World: Modernity Constructs Its Other




Tradition and Change in Malay Healing




Modernity and the Midwife: Contestations Over a Subaltern Figure, South India




The Political Ecology of Health in India: Indigestion as Sign and Symptom of Defective Modernization




Healing on the Margins: Malaysia, Indonesia, and China



Engaging the Spirits of Modernity: The Temiars




Presence, Efficacy, and Politics in Healing Among the Iban of Sarawak




Sorcery and Science as Competing Models of Explanation in a Sasak Village




Medicines and Modernities in Socialist China: Medical Pluralism, the State, and Naxi Identities in the Lijiang Basin




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




Particularizing Modernity: Tibetan Medical Theorizing of Women's Health in Lhasa, Tibet




Tibetan Medicine in Contemporary India: Theory and Practice



Glossary of Tibetan Terms


Index


About the Editors and Contributors