Women as healers : cross-cultural perspectives /

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	McClain, Carol Shepherd, 1939-
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, ©1989.
Subjects:	Women healers > Cross-cultural studies. Medical anthropology. Traditional medicine > Cross-cultural studies. Women physicians. Anthropologie médicale. Guérisseuses > Études transculturelles. Médecine populaire > Études transculturelles. 44.99 medicine: other. Traditional medicine. Women healers. Geneeskunde. Vrouwen. Vrouwelijke artsen. Ethnomédecine > Études transculturelles. Guérisseurs > Études transculturelles. Anthropologie médicale. Anthropology Cross-Cultural Comparison Medicine, Traditional Women Cross-cultural studies. Intercultural comparisons (form)

Table of Contents:

Reinterpreting women in healing roles / Carol Shepherd McClain
The forgotten healers : women as family healers in an Andean Indian community / Ruthbeth Finerman
It's all in a name : local-level female healers in Sri Lanka / Carolyn Nordstrom
The management of reproduction in an egalitarian society / Carole H. Browner
Mothering and the practice of "balm" in Jamaica / William Wedenoja
The socioreligious role of the Christian Science practitioner / Margery Fox
Healing with mother metaphors : Serbian conjurers' word magic / Barbara Kerewsky-Halpern
Old ghosts and ungrateful children : a Korean shaman's story / Laurel Kendall
Becoming a Puerto Rican espiritista : life history of a female healer / Merrill Singer and Roberto Garcia.
Mystical black power : the calling to diviner-mediumship in Southern Africa / Edward C. Green
Women's roles and women healers in contemporary rural and urban Benin / Carolyn Sargent
Sisterhood and professionalization : a case study of the American lay midwife / Margaret Reid.

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