Cosmos, gods and madmen: frameworks in the anthropologies of medicine

Introduction : divinity, disease, distress / Roland Littlewood and Rebecca Lynch -- Why animism matters / A. David Napier -- Spreading the gospel of the miracle cure / Rodney J. Reynolds -- Madness and miracles / Ursula M. Read -- Sakawa rumours / Alice Armstrong -- To heal the body is to heal onese...

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Contributors: Littlewood, Roland 1947- (Editor) ; Lynch, Rebecca (Editor)
Format: Print Book
Language:English
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Published: New York Oxford Berghahn Books [2016]
In:Year: 2016
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Ethnic medicine / Religion / Cosmology
B Ethnic medicine / Religion / Ritual / Miraculous healing
Further subjects:B Collection of essays
B Cosmology
B Religion and Medicine
B Medical anthropology
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