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Author Hay, M. Cameron, 1965-

Title Remembering to live : illness at the intersection of anxiety and knowledge in rural Indonesia / M. Cameron Hay
Edition 1st pbk. ed
Published Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2004

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 345 pages) : illustrations, maps
Series Southeast Asia: politics, meaning, memory
Southeast Asia--politics, meaning, memory.
Contents List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I Less than Healthy; 1. Written on the Body; 2. Learning Sasak Anatomy; Interlude: Learning to Be Vulnerable; 3. A World Full of Dangers; 4. Agents of Coping; Part II Coping with Illness; Case Study: An Ill Child; 5. Naming an Illness; 6. Winged Words: The Politics of Communication about Illness; 7. Communication Slippages: Interactions with Biomedicine; Denouement: Epitaph for Lo Budin; 8. Time to Remember; 9. Illness at the Intersection of Anxiety and Knowledge; Epilogue: The Irony of Knowledge; Glossary; References; Index
Summary An ethnographic exploration of health, illness, and healing among a poor, rural Indonesian people
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 321-336) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Sasak (Indonesian people) -- Health and hygiene
Sasak (Indonesian people) -- Attitudes
Sasak (Indonesian people) -- Medical care
Traditional medicine -- Indonesia -- Pelocok
Sick -- Indonesia -- Pelocok -- Psychology
MEDICAL -- History.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
Manners and customs
Sick -- Psychology
Traditional medicine
SUBJECT Pelocok (Indonesia) -- Social life and customs
Subject Indonesia -- Pelocok
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780472026319
0472026313