Health and the Supernatural: Disease and Cure in Tribal Societies
Channa, S.M. (Ed.)
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Book ID : 35574
ISBN-10 : 81-7755-195-7 / 8177551957
Place
of Publication :
Delhi
Year
of Publication :
2002
Edition : (First Edition)
Language : English
vi, 314p., Tables, Bib., Notes, Ref.
CONTENTS
CONTENTS:- 1. The Spirit Theory in Early Medicine/John Lee Maddox 2. Spirits and the Healing of the Sick in Ontong Java/H. Ian. Hogbin 3. Medicine as an Ethnographic Category: The Gimi of the New Guinea Highlands/Leonard B. Glick 4. The Hot-Cold Syndrome and Symbolic Balance in Mexican and Spanish-American Folk-Medicine/Richard L. Currier 5. The Maya Bonesetter as Sacred Specialist/Benjamin D. Paul 6. Body, Psyche and Society: Conceptions of Illness in Ommura, Eastern Highlands, Papua New Guinea/Jessica R. Mayer 7. Lunda Medicine and the Treatment of Disease/Victor Turner 8. Processes for the Articulation of Meaning and Ritual Healing Among the Northern Yaka (Zaire)/Rene Devisch 9. The Ancestors and Illness Among the Zulu/Harriet Ngubane
