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The study offers an ethnographically rich journey through the variety of healing methods in current Ayfat society: indigenous (obtained during female and male initiation rites), biomedical (the missionary hospital), and Christian (created by ritual healers since the coming of the missionaries). Like...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Courtens, Ien
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Leiden : KITLV Press, ©2008.
Colección:Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde ; 241.
Temas:
Catholic Church > Missions > Indonesia > Papua.
Église catholique > Missions > Indonésie > Papouasie occidentale.
Catholic Church
Mejprat (New Guinean people) > Medical care.
Mejprat (New Guinean people) > Medical care > Religious aspects.
Traditional medicine > Indonesia > Papua.
Medical care > Indonesia > Papua.
Healing > Indonesia > Papua.
Folklore > Performance > Indonesia > Papua.
Catholic hospitals > Indonesia > Papua.
Christianity.
Medical care.
Medicine > Religious aspects.
Social change.
Medicine, Traditional
Christianity
Delivery of Health Care
Missions and Missionaries
Religion and Medicine
Social Change
Patient Care
Mejprat (Peuple de Nouvelle-Guinée) > Soins médicaux.
Mejprat (Peuple de Nouvelle-Guinée) > Soins médicaux > Aspect religieux.
Guérison > Indonésie > Papouasie occidentale.
Folklore > Interprétation > Indonésie > Papouasie occidentale.
Hôpitaux catholiques > Indonésie > Papouasie occidentale.
Christianisme.
Prestation de soins.
Médecine > Aspect religieux.
Changement social.
Soins médicaux > Indonésie > Papouasie occidentale.
Soins médicaux.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
Social change
Medicine > Religious aspects
Catholic hospitals
Folklore > Performance
Healing
Medical care
Missions
Traditional medicine
Ethnomedizin
Heiler
Ärztliche Mission
Indonesia
Indonesia > Papua
Provinz Papua
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Sumario:The study offers an ethnographically rich journey through the variety of healing methods in current Ayfat society: indigenous (obtained during female and male initiation rites), biomedical (the missionary hospital), and Christian (created by ritual healers since the coming of the missionaries). Likewise, the causes ascribed to illness range from sorcery, witchcraft, violation of ancestral or biblical rules, to biomedical conditions, a multiplicity of ways of understanding illness and healing that emerged in the context of religious change. Making choices among the variety of healing performanc.
Notas:Rev. version of the author's doctoral thesis, Radboud University Nijmegen.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (xii, 252 pages) : illustrations, map
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-246) and index.
ISBN:9789004253902
9004253904

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