Betel Quid
Buddhist Sage
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Charles L. Briggs
cross-cultural healing
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Edward Schieffelin
embodiment theory
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ethnographic methods
Experimental Treatment Combination
Head Soul
Ho Ho
Imaginal Performance
Janet Hoskins
Korean Shaman
Laurel Kendall
Margaret Bell
Marina Roseman
medical anthropology
Megan Biesele
North Central Nepal
Orang Asli
Palm Starch
Paul Stoller
performance in medical rituals
Possession Ceremonies
Possession Troupes
Rattle Rhythms
Ritual Healing
ritual transformation
Robbie Davis-Floyd
Robert R. Desjarlais
shamanic practices
Song Phrase
Spirit Possession Ceremonies
Spirit Seance
Teddy Bear
Thomas J. Csordas
Tone Row
Walia's Song
Walia's Spirit
Walia’s Song
Walia’s Spirit
Young Men
Product details
- ISBN 9780415912006
- Weight: 458g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 21 Dec 1995
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Medical systems need to be understood from within, as experienced by healers, patients, and others whose minds and hearts have both become involved in this important human undertaking. Exploring how the performance of healing transforms illness to health, initiate to ritual specialist, the authors show that performance does not merely refer to, but actually does something in the world. These essays on the performance of healing in societies ranging from rainforest horticulturalists to dwellers in the American megalopolis will touch readers' senses as well as their intellects.
Carol Laderman is Professor and Chair of the Department of Anthropology at City College--CUNY. She is the author of Wives and Midwives (1983) and Taming the Wind of Desire (1991). Marina Roseman, the author of Healing Sounds fromthe Malaysian Rainforest (1991) is Assistant Professor in the Departments of Music, Anthropology, Folklore and Folklife, and Associate Faculty of the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania.
