Health and the supernatural : disease and cure in tribal societies

Author(s)

• Channa, Subhadra

Bibliographic Information

Health and the supernatural : disease and cure in tribal societies

editor: Subhadra M. Channa

（International encyclopaedia of tribal religion / editor: Subhadra M. Channa, v. 11）

Cosmo Publications, 2000

Note

Includes bibliographical references

Contents of Works

• The spirit theory in early medicine / by John Lee Maddox
• Spirits and the healing of the sick in Ontong Java / by H. Ian Hogbin
• Medicine as an ethnographic category : the Gimi of the New Guinea Highlands / by Leonard B. Glick
• The hot-cold syndrome and symbolic balance in Mexican and Spanish-American folk-medicine / by Richard L. Currier
• The Maya Bonesetter as sacred specialist / by Benjamin D. Paul
• Body, psyche and society : conceptions of illness in Ommura, Eastern Highlands, Papua New Guinea / by Jessica R. Mayer
• Lunda medicine and the treatment of disease / by Victor Turner
• Processes for the articulation of meaning and ritual healing among the Northern Yaka (Zaïre) / by René Devisch
• The ancestors and illness among the Zulu / by Harriet Ngubane

Details

• NCID: BA50133145
• ISBN:
  • 8177550497
• Country Code: ii
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: New Delhi
• Pages/Volumes: 314 p.
• Size: 23 cm
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA5012096X