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Fortune and the Cursed
The Sliding Scale of Time in Mongolian Divination
Inbunden, 2012
1921 kr
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Innovation-making is a classic theme in anthropology that reveals how people fine-tune their ontologies, live in the world, and conceive of it as they do. This ethnographic study is an entrance into the world of Buryat Mongol divination, where a group of cursed shamans undertake the "race against …
Plants, Health and Healing
On the Interface of Ethnobotany and Medical Anthropology
Av Elisabeth Hsu, Stephen Harris
Häftad, 2012
527 kr
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...the book offers a platform to raise thought-provoking questions and encourages in-depth analyses to bridge the gulf between ethnobotany and medical anthropology...Highly recommended. Choice The tantalising and rather eclectic selection of edited chapters takes the reader around the world …
Moral Power
The Magic of Witchcraft
Häftad, 2012
527 kr
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...[Stroeken's]ethnographically-driven but conceptually-powerful book should give anthropologists some pause to re-examine their assumptions and seek unexpected connections. That is, it should cause us the good kind of trouble. Anthropology Review Koen Stroeken's work is fascinating, …
Manufacturing Tibetan Medicine
The Creation of an Industry and the Moral Economy of Tibetanness
Av Martin Saxer
Inbunden, 2013
1921 kr
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Within a mere decade, hospital pharmacies throughout the Tibetan areas of the People’s Republic of China have been converted into pharmaceutical companies. Confronted with the logic of capital and profit, these companies now produce commodities for a nationwide market. While these developments are …
Land Is Dying
Contingency, Creativity and Conflict in Western Kenya
Av Paul Wenzel Geissler, Ruth Jane Prince
Häftad, 2012
601 kr
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Based on several years of ethnographic fieldwork, the book explores life in and around a Luo-speaking village in western Kenya during a time of death. The epidemic of HIV/AIDS affects every aspect of sociality and pervades villagers' debates about the past, the future and the ethics of everyday …
Morality, Hope and Grief
Anthropologies of AIDS in Africa
Häftad, 2012
516 kr
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The HIV/AIDS epidemic in sub-Saharan Africa has been addressed and perceived predominantly through the broad perspectives of social and economic theories as well as public health and development discourses. This volume however, focuses on the micro-politics of illness, treatment and death in order …
Body in Balance
Humoral Medicines in Practice
Av Peregrine Horden, Elisabeth Hsu
Inbunden, 2013
1936 kr
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Focusing on practice more than theory, this collection offers new perspectives for studying the so-called "humoral medical traditions," as they have flourished around the globe during the last 2,000 years. Exploring notions of "balance" in medical cultures across Eurasia, Africa and the Americas, …
Medicine Between Science and Religion
Explorations on Tibetan Grounds
Av Vincanne Adams, Mona Schrempf m. fl.
Häftad, 2013
511 kr
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There is a growing interest in studies that document the relationship between science and medicine - as ideas, practices, technologies and outcomes - across cultural, national, geographic terrain. Tibetan medicine is not only known as a scholarly medical tradition among other Asian medical systems, …
Asymmetrical Conversations
Contestations, Circumventions, and the Blurring of Therapeutic Boundaries
Av Harish Naraindas, Johannes Quack m. fl.
Inbunden, 2014
1936 kr
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Ideas about health are reinforced by institutions and their corresponding practices, such as donning a patient's gown in a hospital or prostrating before a healing shrine. Even though we are socialized into regarding such ideologies as "natural" and unproblematic, we sometimes seek to bypass, …
Healing Roots
Anthropology in Life and Medicine
Inbunden, 2015
1921 kr
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Umhlonyane, also known as Artemisia afra, is one of the oldest and best-documented indigenous medicines in South Africa. This bush, which grows wild throughout the sub-Saharan region, smells and tastes like “medicine,” thus easily making its way into people’s lives and becoming the choice of …
Ritual Retellings
Luangan Healing Performances through Practice
Inbunden, 2015
1921 kr
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Belian is an exceptionally lively tradition of shamanistic curing rituals performed by the Luangans, a politically marginalized population of Indonesian Borneo. This volume explores the significance of these rituals in practice and asks what belian rituals do – socially, politically, and …
Body in Balance
Humoral Medicines in Practice
Av Peregrine Horden, Elisabeth Hsu
Häftad, 2015
543 kr
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Focusing on practice more than theory, this collection offers new perspectives for studying the so-called “humoral medical traditions,” as they have flourished around the globe during the last 2,000 years. Exploring notions of “balance” in medical cultures across Eurasia, Africa and the Americas, …
Capturing Quicksilver
The Position, Power, and Plasticity of Chinese Medicine in Singapore
Inbunden, 2018
1921 kr
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Since the turn of the century Singapore has sustained a reputation for both austere governance and cutting-edge biomedical facilities and research. Seeking to emphasize Singapore’s capacity for “modern medicine” and strengthen their burgeoning biopharmaceutical industry, this image has explicitly …
Healing Roots
Anthropology in Life and Medicine
Häftad, 2018
527 kr
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Umhlonyane, also known as Artemisia afra, is one of the oldest and best-documented indigenous medicines in South Africa. This bush, which grows wild throughout the sub-Saharan region, smells and tastes like “medicine,” thus easily making its way into people’s lives and becoming the choice of …
Fierce Medicines, Fragile Socialities
Grounding Global HIV Treatment in Tanzania
Inbunden, 2019
2117 kr
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Set in Tanga, a city on the Tanzanian Swahili coast, Dominik Mattes examines the implementation of antiretroviral HIV-treatment (ART) in the area, exploring the manifold infrastructural and social fragilities of treatment provision in public HIV clinics as well as patients’ multi-layered struggles …
Configuring Contagion
Ethnographies of Biosocial Epidemics
Av Lotte Meinert, Jens Seeberg
Inbunden, 2022
1357 kr
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Expanding our understanding of contagion beyond the typical notions of infection and pandemics, this book widens the field to include the concept of biosocial epidemics. The chapters propose varied and detailed answers to questions about epidemics and their contagious potential for specific …
Chinese Medicine in East Africa
An Intimacy with Strangers
Inbunden, 2022
2056 kr
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Based on fieldwork conducted between 2001-2008 in urban East Africa, this book explores who the patients, practitioners and paraprofessionals doing Chinese medicine were in this early period of renewed China-Africa relations. Rather than taking recourse to the ‘placebo effect’, the author explains …
Fierce Medicines, Fragile Socialities
Grounding Global HIV Treatment in Tanzania
Häftad, 2023
618 kr
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Set in Tanga, a city on the Tanzanian Swahili coast, Dominik Mattes examines the implementation of antiretroviral HIV-treatment (ART) in the area, exploring the manifold infrastructural and social fragilities of treatment provision in public HIV clinics as well as patients’ multi-layered struggles …
Fragile Futures
Ambiguities of Care in Burkina Faso
Inbunden, 2024
1979 kr
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Caring for small children and the family in Burkina Faso is hard work. Although the health infrastructure in Burkina Faso is weak and many citizens feel neglected by the state, Fragile Futures shows that the state continues to play an important role in people’s engagements and hopes for a better …
Breathing Hearts
Sufism, Healing, and Anti-Muslim Racism in Germany
Av Nasima Selim
Inbunden, 2024
1861 kr
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Sufism is known as the mystical dimension of Islam. Breathing Hearts explores this definition to find out what it means to ‘breathe well’ along the Sufi path in the context of anti-Muslim racism. It is the first book-length ethnographic account of Sufi practices and politics in Berlin and describes …
Configuring Contagion
Ethnographies of Biosocial Epidemics
Av Lotte Meinert, Jens Seeberg
Häftad, 2024
543 kr
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Expanding our understanding of contagion beyond the typical notions of infection and pandemics, this book widens the field to include the concept of biosocial epidemics. The chapters propose varied and detailed answers to questions about epidemics and their contagious potential for specific …
Healing Machi
An Ethnography of Mapuche Medicine Efficacies
Inbunden, 2026
2047 kr
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This book is an ethnography on Mapuche ritual healing transformations from the perspective of the phenomenology of the body. It explores how people identify a Mapuche shaman, or a “real Machi”, a person who can see illness and misfortune through divinatory techniques. These techniques produce …
Capturing Quicksilver
The Position, Power, and Plasticity of Chinese Medicine in Singapore
Häftad, 2026
607 kr
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Since the turn of the century Singapore has sustained a reputation for both austere governance and cutting-edge biomedical facilities and research. Seeking to emphasize Singapore’s capacity for “modern medicine” and strengthen their burgeoning biopharmaceutical industry, this image has explicitly …
Breathing Hearts
Sufism, Healing, and Anti-Muslim Racism in Germany
Av Nasima Selim
Häftad, 2026
223 kr
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Sufism is known as the mystical dimension of Islam. Breathing Hearts explores this definition to find out what it means to ‘breathe well’ along the Sufi path in the context of anti-Muslim racism. It is the first book-length ethnographic account of Sufi practices and politics in Berlin and describes …
Chinese Medicine in East Africa
An Intimacy with Strangers
Häftad, 2025
450 kr
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Based on fieldwork conducted between 2001-2008 in urban East Africa, this book explores who the patients, practitioners and paraprofessionals doing Chinese medicine were in this early period of renewed China-Africa relations. Rather than taking recourse to the ‘placebo effect’, the author explains …
Conjuring Hope
Healing and Magic in Contemporary Russia
Inbunden, 2005
1861 kr
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Notions of magic and healing have been changing over past years and are now understood as reflecting local ideas of power and agency, as well as structures of self, subjectivity and affect. This study focuses on contemporary urban Russia and, through exploring social conditions, conveys the …
Plants, Health and Healing
On the Interface of Ethnobotany and Medical Anthropology
Av Elisabeth Hsu, Stephen Harris
Inbunden, 2010
1921 kr
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Plants have cultural histories, as their applications change over time and with place. Some plant species have affected human cultures in profound ways, such as the stimulants tea and coffee from the Old World, or coca and quinine from South America. Even though medicinal plants have always …
Conjuring Hope
Healing and Magic in Contemporary Russia
Häftad, 2005
527 kr
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Notions of magic and healing have been changing over past years and are now understood as reflecting local ideas of power and agency, as well as structures of self, subjectivity and affect. This study focuses on contemporary urban Russia and, through exploring social conditions, conveys the …
Dances with Spiders
Crisis, Celebrity and Celebration in Southern Italy
Av Karen Lüdtke
Inbunden, 2008
1936 kr
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For centuries, the rite of the tarantula was the only cure for those ‘bitten’ or ‘possessed’ by the mythic Apulian spider. Its victims had to dance to the local tarantella or ‘pizzica’ for days on end. Today, the pizzica has returned to the limelight, bringing to the forefront issues of …
Precious Pills
Medicine and Social Change among Tibetan Refugees in India
Av Audrey Prost
Inbunden, 2008
1861 kr
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Through an ethnography of the social and medical worlds of a community of Tibetan refugees in India, this book addresses two main questions: first, how has the prolonged displacement of Tibetan refugees affected concepts of health in the exile community? Second, how has exile changed traditional …
