The Performance of Healing
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Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
0415912008
ISBN-13
9780415912006
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint
Routledge
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Dec 21st, 1995
Print length
336 Pages
Weight
408 grams
Product Classification:
Anthropology
Ksh 10,450.00
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Covers a wide range of medical, holistic and religious aspects of healing and of death, expanding the definition of 'cure' from its narrower sense of restoring a victim to health to the larger goal of repairing social relations.
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.
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