Remembering To Live : Illness At The Intersection Of Anxiety And Knowledge In Rural Indonesia.

Sasaks, a people of the Indonesian archipelago, cope with one of the country's worst health records by employing various medical traditions, including their own secret ethnomedical knowledge. But anxiety, in the presence and absence of illness, profoundly shapes the ways Sasaks use healing and...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: University of Michigan Press 2010.
Temas:
1900-1999
Sasak (Indonesian people) > Attitudes.
Sasak (Indonesian people) > Health and hygiene.
Sasak (Indonesian people) > Medical care.
Sick > Indonesia > Pelocok > Psychology.
Traditional medicine > Indonesia > Pelocok.
Sasak (Peuple d'Indonésie) > Attitudes.
Sasak (Peuple d'Indonésie) > Santé et hygiène.
Sasak (Peuple d'Indonésie) > Soins médicaux.
Manners and customs
Sick > Psychology
Traditional medicine
Pelocok (Indonesia) > Social life and customs > 20th century.
Indonesia > Pelocok
Electronic resource.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I Less than Healthy; 1. Written on the Body; 2. Learning Sasak Anatomy; Interlude: Learning to Be Vulnerable; 3. A World Full of Dangers; 4. Agents of Coping; Part II Coping with Illness; Case Study: An Ill Child; 5. Naming an Illness; 6. Winged Words: The Politics of Communication about Illness; 7. Communication Slippages: Interactions with Biomedicine; Denouement: Epitaph for Lo Budin; 8. Time to Remember; 9. Illness at the Intersection of Anxiety and Knowledge; Epilogue: The Irony of Knowledge; Glossary; References; Index.

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