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Remembering to live : illness at the intersection of anxiety and knowledge in rural Indonesia / M. Cameron Hay.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hay, M. Cameron, 1965-
- Series:
- Southeast Asia--politics, meaning, memory
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sasak (Indonesian people)--Health and hygiene.
- Sasak (Indonesian people).
- Sasak (Indonesian people)--Attitudes.
- Sasak (Indonesian people)--Medical care.
- Traditional medicine--Indonesia--Pelocok.
- Traditional medicine.
- Sick--Indonesia--Pelocok--Psychology.
- Sick.
- Psychology.
- Medical care.
- Pelocok (Indonesia)--Social life and customs.
- Pelocok (Indonesia).
- Indonesia--Pelocok.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xiii, 345 pages) : illustrations.
- Place of Publication:
- Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c2001.
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- Laughter rings throughout Sasak compounds on Lombok, the island immediately east of Bali. Yet as a place with one of the worst health records in Indonesia, illness and death are also constant threats. How can this paradox exist? Anthropologist M. Cameron Hay argues that Sasaks cope by selectively accessing the medical knowledge of various traditions, including their own secret ethnomedical knowledge. Her conclusion discusses the tragic irony that the ethnomedical knowledge which rural Sasaks use to cope with their vulnerabilities and illnesses inhibits improvements in their health care. Remembering to Live provides compelling narratives and vivi photographs to engage the reader in the lives and concerns of a unique and relatively unknown people.
- Contents:
- Part I Less than Healthy
- 1. Written on the Body 27
- 2. Learning Sasak Anatomy 65
- Interlude: Learning to Be Vulnerable 95
- 3. A World Full of Dangers 98
- 4. Agents of Coping 141
- Part II Coping with Illness
- Case Study: An Ill Child 171
- 5. Naming an Illness 186
- 6. Winged Words: The Politics of Communication about Illness 226
- 7. Communication Slippages: Interactions with Biomedicine 262
- Denouement: Epitaph for Lo Budin 286
- 8. Time to Remember 288
- 9. Illness at the Intersection of Anxiety and Knowledge 298
- Epilogue: The Irony of Knowledge 311.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 321-336) and index.
- Description based on information from the publisher.
- ISBN:
- 0472097857
- 9780472026319
- Publisher Number:
- 10.3998/mpub.11257
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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