- 336 pages
- English
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The Performance of Healing
About this book
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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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- Introduction
- 1. Initiating Performance: The Story of Chini, a Korean Shaman
- 2. On Failure and Performance: Throwing the Medium Out of the Seance
- 3. Imaginai Performance and Memory in Ritual Healing
- 4. The Poetics of Healing in Malay Shamanistic Performances
- 5. Presence
- 6. Sounds and Things: Pulsations of Power in Songhay
- 7. The Meaning of Nonsense, the Poetics of Embodiment, and the Production of Power in Warao Healing
- 8. “Pure Products Go Crazy”: Rainforest Healing in a Nation-state
- 9. From Diagnosis to Performance: Medical Practice and the Politics of Exchange in Kodi, West Sumba
- 10. Dying as Medical Performance: The Oncologist as Charon
- Index
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Yes, you can access The Performance of Healing by Carol Laderman, Marina Roseman, Carol Laderman,Marina Roseman in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Social Sciences & Sociology. We have over 1.5 million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.