The Power of Remainder : Politics and Poetics of Healing in Buddhist Myanmar.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Coderey, Céline.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (321 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, 2026.

Summary:

Céline Coderey is research fellow with the Asia Research Institute and lecturer at Tembusu College, National University of Singapore.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Acknowledgments

Note on Language

Prologue: Aye Tan Shin

Introduction: Politics and Poetics of Healing in Rakhine

Chapter 1 - Creating Margins to Strengthen the Center: The State's Governance of the Medical Repertoire

Chapter 2 - Giving Sense to Health and Illness amongst Plurality and Instability

Chapter 3 - Marginal and Yet Central: The Pluralistic Nature of Traditional Healers

Chapter 4 - Central and Yet Marginal: Healing amidst the Inadequacy of the Formal Health-Care System

Chapter 5 - Maintaining Health and Preventing Illness: Coping with an Unstable Order

Chapter 6 - The Process of Health Seeking: Weaving Meaning and Cure through Compound Healing

Conclusion: The Power of Remainders

Notes

References

Index.

Notes:

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Other Format:

Print version: Coderey, Céline The Power of Remainder

ISBN:

9798880703050

OCLC:

1581929451