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

Cover -- Healing Powers and Modernity -- Contents -- Illustrations -- FIGURES -- MAPS -- TABLES -- Acknowledgments -- A Note on Tibetan Spelling -- INTRODUCTION -- 1 Healing Powers in Contemporary Asia -- MEDICINE AND GLOBAL MODERNITIES -- ARTICULATIONS OF GLOBAL AND LOCAL -- CONCLUSION -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- PART I HEALING IN THE MODERN STATE: KOREA, MALAYSIA, AND INDIA -- 2 The Cultural Politics of "Superstition" in the Korean Shaman World: Modernity Constructs Its Other -- THE CONFRONTATION -- AN IDEOLOGY OF AFFLICTION -- KOREA GETS SUPERSTITION -- "SUPERSTITION" BECOMES "CULTURE" -- GOING PUBLIC -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- 3 Tradition and Change in Malay Healing -- PAK LONG'S FAILURE -- CIK SU -- MALAY MEDICAL THEORY -- CIK SU'S PERFORMANCE OF HEALING -- CIK SU AND YUSSOF -- Patient One (a middle-aged woman): -- Patient Two (an elderly woman): -- Patient Three (a middle-aged man): -- Patient Four (an elderly woman): -- ARCHAISM AND MODERNITY IN MALAY HEALING -- REFERENCES -- 4 Modernity and the Midwife: Contestations Over a Subaltern Figure, South India -- INTRODUCTION -- MULTIPLE MODERNITIES -- CONTEMPORARY POLICIES ON THE DAI: NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL -- THE SPEECH OF THE SUBALTERN -- NEW CONTEXTS FOR MINOR PRACTICES -- CONCLUSION: "TACTICS" OR "STRATEGIES" OF RESISTANCE? REVISITING COMPARATIVE QUESTIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- 5 The Political Ecology of Health in India: Indigestion as Sign and Symptom of Defective Modernization -- BRIEF OVERVIEW OF RURAL HAVIK LIFESTYLE: TOTA JEEVANA (GARDEN LIFE) -- CASE ONE: TREATING THE STOMACH TO HEAL THE MIND OF ITS DESIRE FOR TABLETS AS THE ANSWER TO LIFE'S PROBLEMS -- CASE TWO: IDENTITY POLITICS, THE STOMACH, AND THE LAND -- Background -- The Case of Govinda -- CASE THREE: INDIGESTION AS AN OPPORTUNITY COST OF URBAN TRANSPLANTATION.

CASE FOUR: MODERNIZATION AND THE MEDICALIZATION OF YOUTH -- Background -- The Case of Ashok -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- PART II HEALING ON THE MARGINS: MALAYSIA, INDONESIA, AND CHINA -- 6 Engaging the Spirits of Modernity: The Temiars -- THE POLITICS OF SPACE -- THE SENSORY EXPERIENCE OF MODERNITY: THE AIRPLANE SONG -- -THE WOMAN OF THE MARKETPLACE -- SPIRITUALIZING COMMODITIES: THE DRIED FISH SONG -- SHIMMER, SHUDDER, AND SWIRL -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- 7 Presence, Efficacy, and Politics in Healing Among the Iban of Sarawak -- SHAMAN AS BACKGROUND -- MULTIPLE HANDS MAKE POTENT HEALING -- Gana -- Impan's Baby -- EFFICACY AND "AUDIENCE" -- Gana, Continued -- CONSTRUCTING BOUNDARIES, INVERTING HIERARCHIES -- CENTRIFUGAL SOCIALITY -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- 8 Sorcery and Science as Competing Models of Explanation in a Sasak Village -- INTRODUCTION -- BACKGROUND AND CONTEXT -- INDONESIAN ISLAM AND LOCAL IDEOLOGIES -- HEALING POWERS -- THE HEALTH QUEST -- The Persons Involved -- The Course of Events -- Diagnosis and Treatment -- THE VILLAGE ARENA AND THE FIELD OF KIN -- INAQ SUDIKIN -- THE STRENGTH AND FORCE OF EMBEDDED PRACTICE -- SORCERY -- SCIENCE AND SORCERY AS COMPETING MODELS -- DISEMBEDDED TIME AND SPACE -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- 9 Medicines and Modernities in Socialist China: Medical Pluralism, the State, and Naxi Identities in the Lijiang Basin -- INTRODUCTION -- THE PROBLEM -- THE CONTEXT -- PRE-1949 STATE AND BASIN NAXI EMERGENT NARRATIVES OF MODERNITY -- MAOIST PERIOD STATE AND BASIN NAXI NARRATIVES OF MODERNITY -- Therapeutic Practices -- POST-MAO STATE AND BASIN NAXI NARRATIVES OF MODERNITY -- Therapeutic Practices -- CONCLUSIONS -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- PART III HEALING, POWER, AND IDENTITY IN TIBETAN SOCIETIES.

10 Tibetan Medicine at the Crossroads: Radical Modernity and the Social Organization of Traditional Medicine in the Tibet Autonomous Region, China -- INTRODUCTION: THE HEALTH TRANSITION AND ASIAN MEDICAL SYSTEMS -- TIBETAN MEDICINE IN MODERN CHINA -- THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF PRIMARY HEALTH CARE IN THE TIBET AUTONOMOUS REGION -- MAKING TIBETAN MEDICINE "SCIENTIFIC" -- TIBETAN PERCEPTIONS OF THE BODY, ILLNESS, AND CAUSALITY -- CONCLUSION: THE FUTURE OF TIBETAN MEDICINE -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- 11 Particularizing Modernity: Tibetan Medical Theorizing of Women's Health in Lhasa, Tibet -- MODERNITY -- MODERNITY IN THE FIGURE OF THE HEALER -- CONDEMNING AND RECUPERATING THE PAST AS A CONDITION OF TIBET'S MODERNITY -- THE PLACE OF THE "SCIENTIFIC" IN TIBETAN MEDICINE -- CONCLUSION -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- 12 Tibetan Medicine in Contemporary India: Theory and Practice -- INTRODUCTION -- TIBETAN MEDICINE IN DALHOUSIE -- HEALING MODALITIES IN DALHOUSIE: EMPOWERED SUBSTANCES, TIBETAN MEDICINE, AND BIOMEDICINE -- PRACTICE AND DIAGNOSIS IN A TIBETAN MEDICAL CLINIC -- DIAGNOSTIC CATEGORIES OF THE GYÜ SHI AND THE TRAINING OF TIBETAN DOCTORS -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- REFERENCES, TIBETAN-LANGUAGE -- REFERENCES, OTHER -- Glossary of Tibetan Terms -- Index -- About the Editors and Contributors.

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