Healers and Empires in Global History Healing as Hybrid and Contested Knowledge /
This book explores cross-cultural medical encounters involving non-Western healers in a variety of imperial contexts from the Arctic, Asia, Africa, Americas and the Caribbean. It highlights contests over healing, knowledge and medicines through the frameworks of hybridisation and pluralism. The inte...
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| Μορφή: | Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο |
| Γλώσσα: | English |
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Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,
2019.
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| Έκδοση: | 1st ed. 2019. |
| Σειρά: | Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies Series
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| Διαθέσιμο Online: | Full Text via HEAL-Link |
Πίνακας περιεχομένων:
- 1. Introduction - Markku Hokkanen and Kalle Kananoja
- 2. Traditional Arctic Healing and Medicines of Modernisation in Finnish and Swedish Lapland - Ritva Kylli
- 3. Reports on Encounters of Medical Cultures: Two Physicians in Sweden's Medical and Colonial Connections in the Late Eighteenth Century - Saara-Maija Kontturi
- 4. Tibetan Medicine and Buddhism in the Soviet Union: Research, Repression, and Revival, 1922-1991 - Ivan Sablin
- 5. Contestation, Redefinition and Healers' Tactics in Colonial Southern Africa - Markku Hokkanen
- 6. Complicating Hybrid Medical Practices in the Tropics: Examining the Case of São Tomé and Príncipe, 1850-1926 - Rafaela Jobbitt
- 7. Doctors, Healers and Charlatans in Brazil: A Short History of Ideas, c. 1650-1950 - Kalle Kananoja
- 8. Risking Obeah: A Spiritual Infrastructure in the Danish West Indies, c. 1800-1848 - Gunvor Simonsen
- 9. Toward a Typology of Nineteenth-Century Lakota Magico-Medico-Ritual Specialists - David C. Posthumus.
