| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 252 pages) : illustrations, map |
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Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde ; 241 |
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Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde ; 241.
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| Contents |
RESTORING THE BALANCE; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Chapter I Performing healing ; An introduction; Chapter II Mama Raja; The case; Chapter III Spirits of the living; Chapter IV Spirits of the underworld; Chapter V Performing indigenous healing; Chapter VI The missionary hospital; Chapter VII Mama Raja; The case continues; Chapter VIII Knowing God's mysteries; Chapter IX Walking together; Chapter X Performing healing; Conclusion; Epilogue; Appendix Healing plants; Glossary; Bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
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 |
| Notes |
Rev. version of the author's doctoral thesis, Radboud University Nijmegen |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-246) and index |
| Notes |
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. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Catholic Church -- Missions -- Indonesia -- Papua
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Catholic Church |
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Mejprat (New Guinean people) -- Medical care
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Mejprat (New Guinean people) -- Medical care -- Religious aspects
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Traditional medicine -- Indonesia -- Papua
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Medical care -- Indonesia -- Papua
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Healing -- Indonesia -- Papua
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Folklore -- Performance -- Indonesia -- Papua
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Catholic hospitals -- Indonesia -- Papua
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Christianity.
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Medical care.
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Medicine -- Religious aspects.
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Social change.
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Medicine, Traditional
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Christianity
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Delivery of Health Care
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Missions and Missionaries
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Religion and Medicine
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Social Change
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Patient Care
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Christianity.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
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Social change
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Medicine -- Religious aspects
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Christianity
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Catholic hospitals
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Folklore -- Performance
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Healing
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Medical care
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Missions
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Traditional medicine
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Ethnomedizin
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Heiler
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Ärztliche Mission
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Indonesia |
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Indonesia -- Papua
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Provinz Papua
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9789004253902 |
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9004253904 |
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