Culture and curing :anthropological perspectives on traditional medical beliefs and practices /edited by Peter Morley and Roy Wallis.

Name/Title

Culture and curing :anthropological perspectives on traditional medical beliefs and practices /edited by Peter Morley and Roy Wallis.

Description

Culture and the cognitive world of traditional medical beliefs : some preliminary considerations / Peter Morley -- Spiritualist healing in Mexico / Michael Kearney -- Bajanje : healing magic in rural Serbia / Barbara Kerewsky Halpern and John Miles Foley -- Disease etiologies of Samaran Filipino peasants / Donn V. Hart -- Sex differences and cultural dimensions of medical phenomena in a Philippine setting / Richard W. Lieban -- Melanesian medicine : beyond culture to method / Lola Romanucci-Ross -- Magic and 'medicine' in Ufipa / R.G. Willis -- Choices of treatment among the Yoruba / Una Maclean -- From honey to vinegar : L{acute}evi-Strauss in Vermont / Paul Atkinson. vii, 190 p. ;23 cm.

Book Details

Publication Subjects

Medical anthropology. Traditional medicine.

Call No.

GN296 .C83 1979

ISBN

0822911361

LCCN

78062194

Notes

Bibliography Note: Includes bibliographical references. Publication Info: [Pittsburgh] :University of Pittsburgh Press,1979, c1978.