Medicine, healing and performance / edited by Effie Gemi-Iordanou [and four others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gemi-Iordanou, Effie, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Traditional medicine.

Medical archaeology.

Mental healing.

Spiritual healing.

Shamanism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (402 p.)

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; Philadelphia : Oxbow Books, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 volume, based on a session conducted at the 2010 Theoretical Archaeology Conference, take a multi-disciplinary approach to the topic, addressing such issues as the cultural conception of disease; the impact of gender roles on healing strategies; the possibilities afforded by syncretism; the relation

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781782971702

178297170X

9781782971689

1782971688