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Medicine, healing and performance /
Whether it is the binding of shattered bones or the creation of herbal remedies, human agency is a central feature of the healing process. Both archaeological and anthropological research has contributed much to our understanding of the performative aspects of medicine. The papers contained in this...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford ; Philadelphia :
Oxbow Books,
2014.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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- Early neolithic shamans? : performance, healing and the power of skulls at Hambledon Hill, Dorset / Ffion Reynolds
- Before Hippocrates : healing practices in ancient Egypt / Roger Forshaw
- Who is performing what and for whom? : the dedication, construction and maintenance of a healing shrine in Egypt / Jane Draycott
- Disease, sin and the walking dead in medieval England, c.1100-1350 : a note on the documentary and archaeological evidence / Stephen Gordon
- Pilgrimage, performance and miracle cures in the twelfth-century miracula of St Aebbe / Hilary Powell
- Gendered attitudes towards physical tending amongst the piously religious of late medieval Sweden / Johanna Bergqvist
- The rattlesnake and the otter : anthropology, gender, and contraception among the Niitsítapi (Blackfoot) in the 1930s / Kristin Burnett
- Re-covering the Hiroshima maidens / Amanda Jane Graham
- Writing stones and secret shrines : an exploration of the materialisation of Indigenous and Islamic belief within West African spiritual medicine / Bryn Trevelyan James
- A note on the ethnomedical universe of the Asante : an Indigenous people in Ghana / De-Valera Botchway
- Spirituality in knowledge production and the practice of traditional herbal medicine among the Yoruba people in southwest Nigeria / Ojo Melvin Agunbiade.