Restoring the balance :: performing healing in West Papua /

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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1. Verfasser: Courtens, Ien
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Leiden : KITLV Press, ©2008.
Schriftenreihe:Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde ; 241.
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Zusammenfassung: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.
Beschreibung:Rev. version of the author's doctoral thesis, Radboud University Nijmegen.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (xii, 252 pages) : illustrations, map
Format:Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-246) and index.
ISBN:9789004253902
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