| Type | Book |
|---|---|
| Author | Jeanne Achterberg |
| Edition | 1st ed |
| Place | Boston |
| Publisher | New Science Library, Shambhala |
| Date | 1985 |
| ISBN | 0877733074 |
| Short Title | Imagery in Healing |
| Library Catalog | library.bu.edu.ezproxy.bu.edu Library Catalog |
| Call Number | R726.5 .A24 1985 |
| Date Added | Sat Oct 1 17:02:41 2011 |
| Modified | Sat Oct 1 17:02:41 2011 |
This influential book shows how the systematic use of mental imagery can have a positive influence on the course of disease and can help patients to cope with pain. In Imagery in Healing, Jeanne Achterberg brings together modern scientific research and the practices of the earliest healers to support her claim that imagery is the world’s oldest and most powerful healing resource. The book has become a classic in the field of alternative medicine and continues to be read by new generations of health care professionals and lay people. In Imagery in Healing, Achterberg explores in detail the role of the imagination in the healing process. She begins with an exploration of the tradition of shamanism, “the medicine of the imagination,” surveying this time-honored way of touching the nexus of the mind, body, and soul. She then traces the history of the use of imagery within Western medicine, including a look at contemporary examples of how health care professionals have drawn on the power of the imagination through such methods as hypnosis, biofeedback, and the placebo effect. Ultimately, Achterberg looks to the science of immunology to uncover the most effective ground for visualization, and she presents data demonstrating how imagery can have a direct and profound impact on the workings of the immune system. Drawing on art, science, history, anthropology, and medicine, Imagery in Healing offers a highly readable overview of the profound and complex relationship between the imagination and the body.
| Type | Book |
|---|---|
| Author | Walter Randolph Adams |
| Author | John Palmer Hawkins |
| Place | Norman |
| Publisher | University of Oklahoma Press |
| Date | 2007 |
| ISBN | 9780806138596 |
| Short Title | Health Care in Maya Guatemala |
| Library Catalog | library.bu.edu.ezproxy.bu.edu Library Catalog |
| Call Number | F1435.3.M4 A43 2007 |
| Date Added | Sat Oct 1 17:02:41 2011 |
| Modified | Sat Oct 1 17:02:41 2011 |
Health Care in Maya Guatemala examines medical systems and institutions in three K’iche’ Maya communities to reveal the conflicts between indigenous medical care and Guatemalan biomedical system. The editors and contributors show how people in this rapidly modernizing society think about traditional practices--and reveal that health conditions in traditional communities deteriorate over time as long-standing medical practices erode in the face of Western encroachment. The contributors first consider cultural, institutional, and behavioral aspects of health care in Guatemala. Then they look closely at the nature and treatment of specific health issues, such as dentistry and mental health--especially depression. Finally they provide new insight on midwifery, nutrition, ethnomedicine, and other topics.
| Type | Journal Article |
|---|---|
| Author | Rômulo Alves |
| Author | Humberto N. Alves |
| Abstract | ABSTRACT: Zootherapy is the treatment of human ailments with remedies made from animals and their products. Despite its prevalence in traditional medical practices worldwide, research on this phenomenon has often been neglected in comparison to medicinal plant research. This review discusses some related aspects of the use of animal-based remedies in Latin America, identifies those species used as folk remedies, and discusses the implications of zootherapy for public health and biological conservation. The review of literature revealed that at least 584 animal species, distributed in 13 taxonomic categories, have been used in traditional medicine in region. The number of medicinal species catalogued was quite expansive and demonstrates the importance of zootherapy as an alternative mode of therapy in Latin America. Nevertheless, this number is certainly underestimated since the number of studies on the theme are very limited. Animals provide the raw materials for remedies prescribed clinically and are also used in the form of amulets and charms in magic-religious rituals and ceremonies. Zootherapeutic resources were used to treat different diseases. The medicinal fauna is largely based on wild animals, including some endangered species. Besides being influenced by cultural aspects, the relations between humans and biodiversity in the form of zootherapeutic practices are conditioned by the social and economic relations between humans themselves. Further ethnopharmacological studies are necessary to increase our understanding of the links between traditional uses of faunistic resources and conservation biology, public health policies, sustainable management of natural resources and bio-prospecting. |
| Publication | Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine |
| Volume | 7 |
| Pages | 9 |
| Date | 2011 |
| Journal Abbr | J Ethnobiol Ethnomed |
| DOI | 10.1186/1746-4269-7-9 |
| ISSN | 1746-4269 |
| Short Title | The faunal drugstore |
| URL | http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21385357 |
| Accessed | Mon Apr 4 19:42:30 2011 |
| Library Catalog | NCBI PubMed |
| Extra | PMID: 21385357 |
| Date Added | Thu Sep 29 08:56:31 2011 |
| Modified | Thu Sep 29 08:56:31 2011 |
| Type | Journal Article |
|---|---|
| Author | Jane Monnig Atkinson |
| Publication | Annual Review of Anthropology |
| Volume | 21 |
| Pages | 307-330 |
| Date | 1992 |
| ISSN | 00846570 |
| URL | http://www.jstor.org.ezproxy.bu.edu/stable/2155990 |
| Accessed | Sun Nov 8 23:39:36 2009 |
| Library Catalog | JSTOR |
| Extra | ArticleType: primary_article / Full publication date: 1992 / Copyright © 1992 Annual Reviews |
| Date Added | Sat Oct 1 17:02:41 2011 |
| Modified | Sat Oct 1 17:02:41 2011 |
| Type | Book |
|---|---|
| Author | Jay H Bernstein |
| Place | Boulder, Colo |
| Publisher | Lynne Rienner Publishers |
| Date | 1997 |
| ISBN | 1555876927 |
| Short Title | Spirits Captured in Stone |
| Library Catalog | library.bu.edu.ezproxy.bu.edu Library Catalog |
| Call Number | DS646.32.T35 B47 1997 |
| Date Added | Sat Oct 1 17:02:41 2011 |
| Modified | Sat Oct 1 17:02:41 2011 |
This work examines Shamanism and healing practices among the Taman of Borneo. It contributes to contemporary debates in cultural and medical anthropology, the anthropology of religion and magic, ritual, folklore, and Southeast Asian ethnography.
| Type | Journal Article |
|---|---|
| Author | Gilles Boileau |
| Abstract | Since Shangdai de shenhua yu wushu, Chen Mengjia's article on Shang mythology, some sinological works have proposed that the Chinese wu was an equivalent of the Siberian shaman. I examine first the issues in anthropological comparatism involved in this problem and provide up-to-date information on Siberian shamanism. It must be noted that the Chinese texts are by no means equivalent to modern anthropological data and that these texts did not originate directly from the wu themselves; they are rather a collection of opinions or stories on the wu. Detailed study of the nature and social status of the Chinese wu, either in oracular inscriptions or late Zhou received texts, shows a systematic association of the wu with non-auspicious or negative events, like funerals, death or natural catastrophes. A further analysis of the data reveals that the wu's activities in relation to natural phenomena were frequently presented in terms related to sexuality. This last point permits a comparison with Siberian shamans, whose activities are also linked to fecundity and sexuality, although the Chinese texts often associate the wu with sexual misbehaviour and blame them on moral grounds. They go as far as to treat them as dangerous sorcerers who must be weeded out. According to these data, the wu's social function is linked to the handling of misfortune, either directly or by being associated with ritually unacceptable behaviours. On the whole, my conclusion is that even the common point between wu and Siberian shaman (the link with sexuality) is not sufficient to allow for a translation of 'wu' by 'shaman', especially in view of the differences of social and historical context. |
| Publication | Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London |
| Volume | 65 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 350-378 |
| Date | 2002 |
| ISSN | 0041977X |
| URL | http://www.jstor.org.ezproxy.bu.edu/stable/4145619 |
| Accessed | Sun Nov 8 23:46:13 2009 |
| Library Catalog | JSTOR |
| Extra | ArticleType: primary_article / Full publication date: 2002 / Copyright © 2002 School of Oriental and African Studies |
| Date Added | Sat Oct 1 17:02:41 2011 |
| Modified | Sat Oct 1 17:02:41 2011 |
Since Shangdai de shenhua yu wushu, Chen Mengjia’s article on Shang mythology, some sinological works have proposed that the Chinese wu was an equivalent of the Siberian shaman. I examine first the issues in anthropological comparatism involved in this problem and provide up-to-date information on Siberian shamanism. It must be noted that the Chinese texts are by no means equivalent to modern anthropological data and that these texts did not originate directly from the wu themselves; they are rather a collection of opinions or stories on the wu. Detailed study of the nature and social status of the Chinese wu, either in oracular inscriptions or late Zhou received texts, shows a systematic association of the wu with non-auspicious or negative events, like funerals, death or natural catastrophes. A further analysis of the data reveals that the wu’s activities in relation to natural phenomena were frequently presented in terms related to sexuality. This last point permits a comparison with Siberian shamans, whose activities are also linked to fecundity and sexuality, although the Chinese texts often associate the wu with sexual misbehaviour and blame them on moral grounds. They go as far as to treat them as dangerous sorcerers who must be weeded out. According to these data, the wu’s social function is linked to the handling of misfortune, either directly or by being associated with ritually unacceptable behaviours. On the whole, my conclusion is that even the common point between wu and Siberian shaman (the link with sexuality) is not sufficient to allow for a translation of ‘wu’ by ‘shaman’, especially in view of the differences of social and historical context.
| Type | Book |
|---|---|
| Author | Robert J Conley |
| Place | Norman [Okla.] |
| Publisher | University of Oklahoma Press |
| Date | 2005 |
| ISBN | 0806136650 |
| Short Title | Cherokee Medicine Man |
| Library Catalog | library.bu.edu.ezproxy.bu.edu Library Catalog |
| Call Number | E99.C5 L54 2005 |
| Date Added | Sat Oct 1 17:02:41 2011 |
| Modified | Sat Oct 1 17:02:41 2011 |
Robert J. Conley did not set out to chronicle the life of Cherokee medicine man John Little Bear. Instead, the medicine man came to him. Little Bear asked Conley to write down his story, to reveal to the world “what Indian medicine is really about.” For Little Bear, as for the Cherokee ancestors who brought their traditions over the Trail of Tears to Indian Territory, the medicine is about helping people. Visitors from neighboring states and Mexico come to him, each one seeking help for a different kind of problem. Each seeker’s story is presented here exactly as it was told to Conley
| Type | Book |
|---|---|
| Editor | Linda Connor |
| Editor | Geoffrey Samuel |
| Place | Westport, CT |
| Publisher | Bergin & Garvey |
| Date | 2000 |
| ISBN | 0897897153 |
| Short Title | Healing Powers and Modernity |
| Library Catalog | library.bu.edu.ezproxy.bu.edu Library Catalog |
| Call Number | RA418.3.A78 H43 2000 |
| Date Added | Sat Oct 1 17:02:41 2011 |
| Modified | Sat Oct 1 17:02:41 2011 |
Connor and Samuel explore the present state of a range of healing traditions in their Asian locales. The peoples examined include relatively remote populations such as the Iban of Sarawak, the Temiar of Malaysia, and the Sasak of Lomboko, as well as rural South Indians and Malays, the people of South Korea’s modern industrial cities, and Tibetans both in Chinese-controlled Tibet and in the refugee settlements of North India.
| Type | Book |
|---|---|
| Author | Andrew Dawson |
| Publisher | I.B. Tauris |
| ISBN | 9781848851627 |
| Date Added | Thu Sep 29 08:59:19 2011 |
| Modified | Thu Sep 29 08:59:19 2011 |
| Type | Journal Article |
|---|---|
| Author | Francisco R. Demetrio |
| Publication | Asian Folklore Studies |
| Volume | 37 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 57-75 |
| Date | 1978 |
| ISSN | 03852342 |
| URL | http://www.jstor.org.ezproxy.bu.edu/stable/1177583 |
| Accessed | Sun Nov 8 23:45:52 2009 |
| Library Catalog | JSTOR |
| Extra | ArticleType: primary_article / Full publication date: 1978 / Copyright © 1978 Nanzan Institute for Religion and Culture |
| Date Added | Sat Oct 1 17:02:41 2011 |
| Modified | Sat Oct 1 17:02:41 2011 |
| Type | Book |
|---|---|
| Author | Horacio Fabrega |
| Contributor | Daniel B Silver |
| Place | Stanford, Calif |
| Publisher | Stanford University Press |
| Date | 1973 |
| ISBN | 0804708444 |
| Library Catalog | library.bu.edu.ezproxy.bu.edu Library Catalog |
| Date Added | Sat Oct 1 17:02:41 2011 |
| Modified | Sat Oct 1 17:02:41 2011 |
| Type | Book |
|---|---|
| Author | Sidney M Greenfield |
| Place | Walnut Creek, CA |
| Publisher | Left Coast Press |
| Date | 2008 |
| ISBN | 9781598743678 |
| Short Title | Spirits with Scalpels |
| Library Catalog | library.bu.edu.ezproxy.bu.edu Library Catalog |
| Call Number | GN564.B6 G74 2008 |
| Date Added | Sat Oct 1 17:02:41 2011 |
| Modified | Sat Oct 1 17:02:41 2011 |
“The first time I witnessed a Spiritist surgery, a young man named Jose Carlos Ribeiro inserted a used scalpel taken from a tray that I was holding, and plunged it into the eye of an elderly man. The patient did not move….” Decades of fieldwork later, Sidney Greenfield presents a riveting ethnography of the complex world of religious healing in Brazil that challenges readers to grapple with the most fundamental concepts of anthropology and cross-cultural experience. In a major contribution to cultural biology, he analyses the complex social, economic, and political landscape of Brazil to understand dramatic healing practices that seem to defy medical explanation. This engrossing and provocative book will put students and scholars alike on the edge of their seats.
| Type | Book |
|---|---|
| Author | Wayland Debs Hand |
| Place | Berkeley |
| Publisher | University of California Press |
| Date | 1980 |
| ISBN | 0520041291 |
| Short Title | Magical Medicine |
| Library Catalog | library.bu.edu.ezproxy.bu.edu Library Catalog |
| Call Number | GR880 .H35 |
| Date Added | Sat Oct 1 17:02:41 2011 |
| Modified | Sat Oct 1 17:02:41 2011 |
| Type | Book |
|---|---|
| Author | Gabrielle Hatfield |
| Place | Santa Barbara, Calif |
| Publisher | ABC-CLIO |
| Date | 2004 |
| ISBN | 1576078744 |
| Short Title | Encyclopedia of Folk Medicine |
| Library Catalog | library.bu.edu.ezproxy.bu.edu Library Catalog |
| Call Number | R733 .H376 2004 |
| Date Added | Sat Oct 1 17:02:41 2011 |
| Modified | Sat Oct 1 17:02:41 2011 |
| Type | Book |
|---|---|
| Author | Åke Hultkrantz |
| Series | Health/medicine and the faith traditions |
| Place | New York |
| Publisher | Crossroad |
| Date | 1992 |
| ISBN | 0824511883 |
| Short Title | Shamanic Healing and Ritual Drama |
| Library Catalog | library.bu.edu Library Catalog |
| Call Number | E98.R3 H825 1992 |
| Date Added | Sat Oct 1 17:02:41 2011 |
| Modified | Sat Oct 1 17:02:41 2011 |
In this pioneering work, one of the world’s leading experts on Native American traditions offers a detailed survey of Native American practices and beliefs regarding health, medicine, and religion. In contrast to the sharp Euro-American division between medicine and religion, Native American medical beliefs and practices can only be assessed in their relation to their religious ideas.
| Type | Journal Article |
|---|---|
| Author | Lee Irwin |
| Publication | American Indian Quarterly |
| Volume | 16 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 237-257 |
| Date | Spring, 1992 |
| ISSN | 0095182X |
| Short Title | Cherokee Healing |
| URL | http://www.jstor.org.ezproxy.bu.edu/stable/1185431 |
| Accessed | Mon Nov 9 00:06:57 2009 |
| Library Catalog | JSTOR |
| Extra | ArticleType: primary_article / Full publication date: Spring, 1992 / Copyright © 1992 University of Nebraska Press |
| Date Added | Sat Oct 1 17:02:41 2011 |
| Modified | Sat Oct 1 17:02:41 2011 |
| Type | Journal Article |
|---|---|
| Author | Susan L. Johnston |
| Abstract | Native American traditional medicine is alive and vibrant in many North American societies, although not all. These traditions coexist with other forms of healing, and the particular patterns of existence, interaction, and meaning vary among groups. The literature examining these issues is likewise diverse. This article explores, through a selective review of the recent literature, how social and behavioral scientists, among others, are focusing their investigations of traditional and alternative medicine in Native American communities of the United States and Canada today. Issues include how native practices have persisted and changed, how they are being used (e. g., in framing cultural identity), and how they interact with other systems, especially biomedicine and faith healing. |
| Publication | Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science |
| Volume | 583 |
| Pages | 195-213 |
| Date | Sep., 2002 |
| ISSN | 00027162 |
| URL | http://www.jstor.org.ezproxy.bu.edu/stable/1049697 |
| Accessed | Mon Oct 12 23:59:24 2009 |
| Library Catalog | JSTOR |
| Extra | ArticleType: primary_article / Issue Title: Global Perspectives on Complementary and Alternative Medicine / Full publication date: Sep., 2002 / Copyright © 2002 American Academy of Political and Social Science |
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Native American traditional medicine is alive and vibrant in many North American societies, although not all. These traditions coexist with other forms of healing, and the particular patterns of existence, interaction, and meaning vary among groups. The literature examining these issues is likewise diverse. This article explores, through a selective review of the recent literature, how social and behavioral scientists, among others, are focusing their investigations of traditional and alternative medicine in Native American communities of the United States and Canada today. Issues include how native practices have persisted and changed, how they are being used (e.g, in framing cultural identity), and how they interact with other systems, especially biomedicine and faith healing.
| Type | Journal Article |
|---|---|
| Author | Rex L. Jones |
| Publication | History of Religions |
| Volume | 7 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 330-347 |
| Date | May, 1968 |
| ISSN | 00182710 |
| Short Title | Shamanism in South Asia |
| URL | http://www.jstor.org.ezproxy.bu.edu/stable/1061796 |
| Accessed | Sun Nov 8 23:50:35 2009 |
| Library Catalog | JSTOR |
| Extra | ArticleType: primary_article / Full publication date: May, 1968 / Copyright © 1968 The University of Chicago Press |
| Date Added | Sat Oct 1 17:02:41 2011 |
| Modified | Sat Oct 1 17:02:41 2011 |
| Type | Book |
|---|---|
| Author | Donald Joralemon |
| Author | Douglas Sharon |
| Place | Salt Lake City |
| Publisher | University of Utah Press |
| Date | 1993 |
| ISBN | 087480423X |
| Short Title | Sorcery and Shamanism |
| Library Catalog | library.bu.edu.ezproxy.bu.edu Library Catalog |
| Call Number | GR133.P4 J67 1993 |
| Date Added | Sat Oct 1 17:02:41 2011 |
| Modified | Sat Oct 1 17:02:41 2011 |
| Type | Journal Article |
|---|---|
| Author | Sergei Kan |
| Abstract | Shamanism, a key element of the precontact Tlingit culture, was seen by Christian missionaries as one of the worst manifestations of paganism. A relentless campaign waged against the shamans by the missionaries, with the help of military and civil authorities, succeeded: by the final decades of the nineteenth century, the Tlingit had converted to Christianity, and by the 1930s most of the shamans had disappeared. In their effort to reconcile Christianity and the "traditional culture," modern-day Tlingit elders construct various interpretations of shamanism. The article examines these accounts as indigenous history and as ideological statements that challenge the notion of the inferiority of the aboriginal Tlingit religion to Christianity. |
| Publication | Ethnohistory |
| Volume | 38 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 363-387 |
| Date | Autumn, 1991 |
| ISSN | 00141801 |
| Short Title | Shamanism and Christianity |
| URL | http://www.jstor.org.ezproxy.bu.edu/stable/482478 |
| Accessed | Sun Nov 8 23:52:47 2009 |
| Library Catalog | JSTOR |
| Extra | ArticleType: primary_article / Full publication date: Autumn, 1991 / Copyright © 1991 The American Society for Ethnohistory |
| Date Added | Sat Oct 1 17:02:41 2011 |
| Modified | Sat Oct 1 17:02:41 2011 |
Shamanism, a key element of the precontact Tlingit culture, was seen by Christian missionaries as one of the worst manifestations of paganism. A relentless campaign waged against the shamans by the missionaries, with the help of military and civil authorities, succeeded: by the final decades of the nineteenth century, the Tlingit had converted to Christianity, and by the 1930s most of the shamans had disappeared. In their effort to reconcile Christianity and the “traditional culture,” modern-day Tlingit elders construct various interpretations of shamanism. The article examines these accounts as indigenous history and as ideological statements that challenge the notion of the inferiority of the aboriginal Tlingit religion to Christianity.
| Type | Book |
|---|---|
| Author | E. Barrie Kavasch |
| Author | Karen Baar |
| Place | New York |
| Publisher | Bantam Books |
| Date | 1999 |
| ISBN | 0553378813 |
| Short Title | American Indian Healing Arts |
| Library Catalog | library.bu.edu Library Catalog |
| Date Added | Sat Oct 1 17:02:41 2011 |
| Modified | Sat Oct 1 17:02:41 2011 |
| Type | Book |
|---|---|
| Editor | James Kirkland |
| Place | Durham |
| Publisher | Duke University Press |
| Date | 1992 |
| ISBN | 0822312085 |
| Short Title | Herbal and Magical Medicine |
| Library Catalog | library.bu.edu.ezproxy.bu.edu Library Catalog |
| Call Number | GR110.V8 H47 1992 |
| Date Added | Sat Oct 1 17:02:41 2011 |
| Modified | Sat Oct 1 17:02:41 2011 |
Herbal and Magical Medicine draws on perspectives from folklore, anthropology, psychology, medicine, and botany to describe the traditional medical beliefs and practices among Native, Anglo- and African Americans in eastern North Carolina and Virginia. In documenting the vitality of such seemingly unusual healing traditions as talking the fire out of burns, wart-curing, blood-stopping, herbal healing, and rootwork, the contributors to this volume demonstrate how the region’s folk medical systems operate in tandem with scientific biomedicine. The authors provide illuminating commentary on the major forms of naturopathic and magico-religious medicine practiced in the United States. Other essays explain the persistence of these traditions in our modern technological society and address the bases of folk medical concepts of illness and treatment and the efficacy of particular pratices. The collection suggests a model for collaborative research on traditional medicine that can be replicated in other parts of the country. An extensive bibliography reveals the scope and variety of research in the field.
| Type | Book |
|---|---|
| Author | Carol Laderman |
| Contributor | Marina Roseman |
| Place | New York |
| Publisher | Routledge |
| Date | 1996 |
| ISBN | 0415911990 |
| Library Catalog | library.bu.edu.ezproxy.bu.edu Library Catalog |
| Call Number | GR880 .P38 1996 |
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Medical systems need to be understood from within, as experienced by healers, patients, and others whose minds and hearts have both become involved in this important human undertaking. Exploring how the performance of healing transforms illness to health, initiate to ritual specialist, the authors show that performance does not merely refer to, but actually does something in the world. These essays on the performance of healing in societies ranging from rainforest horticulturalists to dwellers in the American megalopolis will touch readers’ senses as well as their intellects.
| Type | Book |
|---|---|
| Author | Carol Laderman |
| Series | Comparative studies of health systems and medical care |
| Place | Berkeley, CA |
| Publisher | University of California Press |
| Date | 1991 |
| ISBN | 0520069161 |
| Short Title | Taming the Wind of Desire |
| Library Catalog | library.bu.edu.ezproxy.bu.edu Library Catalog |
| Call Number | DS595 .L33 1991 |
| Date Added | Sat Oct 1 17:02:41 2011 |
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Charged with restoring harmony and relieving pain, the Malay shaman places his patients in trance and encourages them to express their talents, drives, personality traits – the “Inner Winds” of Malay medical lore – in a kind of performance. These healing ceremonies, formerly viewed by Western anthropologists as exotic curiosities, actually reveal complex multicultural origins and a unique indigenous medical tradition whose psychological content is remarkably relevant to contemporary Western concerns. Accepted as apprentice to a Malay shaman, Carol Laderman learned and recorded every aspect of the healing seance and found it comparable in many ways to the traditional dramas of Southeast Asia and of other cultures such as ancient Greece, Japan, and India. The Malay seance is a total performance, complete with audience, stage, props, plot, music, and dance. The players include the patient along with the shaman and his troupe. At the center of the drama are pivotal relationships among people, between humans and spirits, and within the self. The best of the Malay shamans are superb poets, dramatists, and performers as well as effective healers of body and soul.
| Type | Book |
|---|---|
| Author | E. Jean Matteson Langdon |
| Editor | Gerhard Baer |
| Edition | 1st ed |
| Place | Albuquerque |
| Publisher | University of New Mexico Press |
| Date | 1992 |
| ISBN | 0826313450 |
| Short Title | Portals of Power |
| Library Catalog | library.bu.edu.ezproxy.bu.edu Library Catalog |
| Call Number | F2230.1.R3 P65 1992 |
| Date Added | Sat Oct 1 17:02:41 2011 |
| Modified | Sat Oct 1 17:02:41 2011 |
| Type | Book |
|---|---|
| Author | Thomas H Lewis |
| Series | Studies in the anthropology of North American Indians |
| Place | Lincoln |
| Publisher | University of Nebraska Press |
| Date | 1990 |
| ISBN | 0803228902 |
| Short Title | The Medicine Men |
| Library Catalog | library.bu.edu.ezproxy.bu.edu Library Catalog |
| Call Number | E99.O3 L49 1990 |
| Date Added | Sat Oct 1 16:51:22 2011 |
| Modified | Sat Oct 1 16:51:22 2011 |
For the residents of the Pine Ridge reservation in South Dakota, mainstream medical care is often supplemented or replaced by a host of traditional practices: the Sun Dance, the yuwipi sing, the heyok’a ceremony, herbalism, the Sioux Religion, the peyotism of the Native American Church, and other medicines, or sources of healing. Thomas H. Lewis, a psychiatrist and medical anthropologist, describes those practices as he encountered them in the late 1960s and early 1970s. During many months he studied with leading practitioners. He describes the healers—their techniques, personal histories and qualities, the problems addressed and results obtained—and examines past as well as present practices. The result is an engrossing account that may profoundly affect the way readers view the dynamics of therapy for mind and body.
| Type | Journal Article |
|---|---|
| Author | Barbara W. Lex |
| Publication | American Ethnologist |
| Volume | 11 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 191-192 |
| Date | Feb., 1984 |
| ISSN | 00940496 |
| URL | http://www.jstor.org.ezproxy.bu.edu/stable/644369 |
| Accessed | Sun Nov 8 23:51:22 2009 |
| Library Catalog | JSTOR |
| Extra | ArticleType: primary_article / Full publication date: Feb., 1984 / Copyright © 1984 American Anthropological Association |
| Date Added | Sat Oct 1 16:51:22 2011 |
| Modified | Sat Oct 1 16:51:22 2011 |
| Type | Book |
|---|---|
| Author | Frank J Lipp |
| Author | American Council of Learned Societies |
| Edition | 1st pbk. ed |
| Place | Austin |
| Publisher | University of Texas Press |
| Date | 1998 |
| ISBN | 0292747055 |
| Library Catalog | library.bu.edu.ezproxy.bu.edu Library Catalog |
| Call Number | F1221.M67 |
| Date Added | Sat Oct 1 17:02:41 2011 |
| Modified | Sat Oct 1 17:02:41 2011 |
The Mixe of Oaxaca was the first extensive ethnography of the Mixe, with a special focus on Mixe religious beliefs and rituals and the curing practices associated with them. It records the procedures, design-plan, corresponding prayers, and symbolic context of well over one hundred rituals. Frank Lipp has written a new preface for this edition, in which he comments on the relationship of Mixe religion to current theoretical understandings of present-day Middle American folk religions.
| Type | Journal Article |
|---|---|
| Author | Roland Littlewood |
| Publication | Anthropology Today |
| Volume | 5 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 5-11 |
| Date | Feb., 1989 |
| ISSN | 0268540X |
| Short Title | Science, Shamanism and Hermeneutics |
| URL | http://www.jstor.org.ezproxy.bu.edu/stable/3032852 |
| Accessed | Sun Nov 8 23:52:28 2009 |
| Library Catalog | JSTOR |
| Extra | ArticleType: primary_article / Full publication date: Feb., 1989 / Copyright © 1989 Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland |
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| Modified | Sat Oct 1 17:02:41 2011 |
| Type | Journal Article |
|---|---|
| Author | Giancarlo Lucchetti |
| Author | Alessandra L Granero Lucchetti |
| Author | Rodrigo M Bassi |
| Author | Marlene Rossi Severino Nobre |
| Abstract | Spiritism is the third most common religion in Brazil, and its therapies have been used by millions worldwide. These therapies are based on therapeutic resources including prayer, laying on of hands, fluidotherapy (magnetized water), charity/volunteering, spirit education/moral values, and disobsession (spirit release therapy). This paper presents a systematic review of the current literature on the relationship among health outcomes and 6 predictors: prayer, laying on of hands, magnetized/fluidic water, charity/volunteering, spirit education (virtuous life and positive affect), and spirit release therapy. All articles were analyzed according to inclusion/exclusion criteria, Newcastle-Ottawa and Jadad score. At present, there is moderate to strong evidence that volunteering and positive affect are linked to better health outcomes. Furthermore, laying on of hands, virtuous life, and praying for oneself also seem to be associated to positive findings. Nevertheless, there is a lack of studies on magnetized water and spirit release therapy. In summary, science is indirectly demonstrating that some of these therapies can be associated to better health outcomes and that other therapies have been overlooked or poorly investigated. Further studies in this field could contribute to the disciplines of Complementary and Alternative Medicine by investigating the relationship between body, mind, and soul/spirit. |
| Publication | Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine: eCAM |
| Volume | 2011 |
| Pages | 835945 |
| Date | 2011 |
| Journal Abbr | Evid Based Complement Alternat Med |
| DOI | 10.1155/2011/835945 |
| ISSN | 1741-4288 |
| Short Title | Complementary spiritist therapy |
| URL | http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21687790 |
| Accessed | Wed Jul 13 18:11:45 2011 |
| Library Catalog | NCBI PubMed |
| Extra | PMID: 21687790 |
| Date Added | Thu Sep 29 08:54:25 2011 |
| Modified | Thu Sep 29 08:54:25 2011 |
| Type | Book |
|---|---|
| Author | William Lyon |
| Place | Santa Barbara Calif |
| Publisher | ABC-CLIO |
| Date | 1996 |
| ISBN | 9780874368529 |
| Library Catalog | Open WorldCat |
| Date Added | Sat Oct 1 17:02:41 2011 |
| Modified | Sat Oct 1 17:02:41 2011 |
This monumental volume explores, explains, and honors the healing practices of Native Americans throughout North America, from the southwestern United States to the Arctic Circle. Designed for ease of use with maps, a detailed subject index, an extensive bibliography, and cross references, this book is sure to fascinate anyone interested in Native American culture and heritage.
| Type | Book |
|---|---|
| Author | Cluny Macpherson |
| Author | La'arasa Macpherson |
| Publisher | University of Hawaii Press |
| Date | 2007-01 |
| ISBN | 0824831330 |
| Library Catalog | Amazon.com |
| Date Added | Sat Oct 1 17:02:41 2011 |
| Modified | Sat Oct 1 17:02:41 2011 |
This comprehensive study of Samoan medicine explores why traditional Samoan medical beliefs and treatments, in the hands of skilled practitioners, continue to flourish alongside Western medical practice.
| Type | Journal Article |
|---|---|
| Author | Taiwo E Mafimisebi |
| Author | Adegboyega E Oguntade |
| Abstract | ABSTRACT: Agrarian rural dwellers in Nigeria produce about 95% of locally grown food commodities. The low accessibility to and affordability of orthodox medicine by rural dwellers and their need to keep healthy to be economically productive, have led to their dependence on traditional medicine. This paper posits an increasing acceptance of traditional medicine country-wide and advanced reasons for this trend. The fact that traditional medicine practitioners' concept of disease is on a wider plane vis-a-vis orthodox medicine practitioners' has culminated in some socio-cultural and magico-religious practices observed in preparation and use of plant medicines for farmers' health management. Possible scientific reasons were advanced for some of these practices to show the nexus between traditional medicine and orthodox medicine. The paper concludes that the psychological aspect of traditional medicine are reflected in its socio-cultural and magico-religious practices and suggests that government should fund research into traditional medicine to identify components of it that can be integrated into the national health system. |
| Publication | Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine |
| Volume | 6 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 1 |
| Date | Jan 20, 2010 |
| Journal Abbr | J Ethnobiol Ethnomed |
| DOI | 10.1186/1746-4269-6-1 |
| ISSN | 1746-4269 |
| Short Title | Preparation and use of plant medicines for farmers' health in Southwest Nigeria |
| Accessed | Sat Jan 23 11:55:32 2010 |
| Library Catalog | NCBI PubMed |
| Extra | PMID: 20089149 |
| Date Added | Thu Sep 29 09:04:35 2011 |
| Modified | Thu Sep 29 09:04:35 2011 |
Agrarian rural dwellers in Nigeria produce about 95% of locally grown food commodities. The low accessibility to and affordability of orthodox medicine by rural dwellers and their need to keep healthy to be economically productive, have led to their dependence on traditional medicine. This paper posits an increasing acceptance of traditional medicine country-wide and advanced reasons for this trend. The fact that traditional medicine practitioners' concept of disease is on a wider plane vis-à-vis orthodox medicine practitioners' has culminated in some socio-cultural and magico-religious practices observed in preparation and use of plant medicines for farmers' health management. Possible scientific reasons were advanced for some of these practices to show the nexus between traditional medicine and orthodox medicine. The paper concludes that the psychological aspect of traditional medicine are reflected in its socio-cultural and magico-religious practices and suggests that government should fund research into traditional medicine to identify components of it that can be integrated into the national health system.
| Type | Book |
|---|---|
| Author | J. Mann |
| Edition | Rev. ed |
| Place | New York |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
| Date | 2000 |
| ISBN | 0198507445 |
| Library Catalog | library.bu.edu.ezproxy.bu.edu Library Catalog |
| Call Number | RM300 .M1845 2000 |
| Date Added | Sat Oct 1 17:02:41 2011 |
| Modified | Sat Oct 1 17:02:41 2011 |
Pocket text presents how many of our modern medicines evolved from extracts that are poisonous, i.e. agents of murder, magic, and medicine. Topics include: arrow poisons, stimulants, antibacterial substances, and much more.
| Type | Journal Article |
|---|---|
| Author | Richard T. Martin |
| Publication | Economic Botany |
| Volume | 24 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 422-438 |
| Date | Oct. - Dec., 1970 |
| ISSN | 00130001 |
| URL | http://www.jstor.org.ezproxy.bu.edu/stable/4253177 |
| Accessed | Mon Nov 9 00:11:20 2009 |
| Library Catalog | JSTOR |
| Extra | ArticleType: primary_article / Full publication date: Oct. - Dec., 1970 / Copyright © 1970 New York Botanical Garden Press |
| Date Added | Sat Oct 1 17:02:41 2011 |
| Modified | Sat Oct 1 17:02:41 2011 |
| Type | Journal Article |
|---|---|
| Author | James McClenon |
| Abstract | It is likely that "Homo sapiens" practiced shamanic healing for many millennia. Studies within anthropology, folklore, hypnosis, medical history, psychoneuroimmunology, and religion support the argument that suggestions embedded within shamanic rituals have therapeutic effects. Shamanic/hypnotic suggestions may reduce pain, enhance healing, control blood loss, facilitate childbirth, and alleviate psychological disorders. Those more responsive to such suggestions are hypothesized to have a survival advantage over the less susceptible. As a consequence, shamanic rituals selected for genotypes associated with hypnotizability, a trait correlated with frequency of anomalous and religious experiences. With the evolution of psychophysiological structures associated with hypnotizability, modern forms of religious sentiment became possible. |
| Publication | Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion |
| Volume | 36 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 345-354 |
| Date | Sep., 1997 |
| ISSN | 00218294 |
| URL | http://www.jstor.org.ezproxy.bu.edu/stable/1387852 |
| Accessed | Tue Oct 13 00:18:42 2009 |
| Library Catalog | JSTOR |
| Extra | ArticleType: primary_article / Full publication date: Sep., 1997 / Copyright © 1997 Society for the Scientific Study of Religion |
| Date Added | Sat Oct 1 17:02:41 2011 |
| Modified | Sat Oct 1 17:02:41 2011 |
It is likely that “Homo sapiens” practiced shamanic healing for many millennia. Studies within anthropology, folklore, hypnosis, medical history, psychoneuroimmunology, and religion support the argument that suggestions embedded within shamanic rituals have therapeutic effects. Shamanic/hypnotic suggestions may reduce pain, enhance healing, control blood loss, facilitate childbirth, and alleviate psychological disorders. Those more responsive to such suggestions are hypothesized to have a survival advantage over the less susceptible. As a consequence, shamanic rituals selected for genotypes associated with hypnotizability, a trait correlated with frequency of anomalous and religious experiences. With the evolution of psychophysiological structures associated with hypnotizability, modern forms of religious sentiment became possible.
| Type | Book |
|---|---|
| Editor | Brian McNeill |
| Editor | Joseph Michael Cervantes |
| Place | New York |
| Publisher | Routledge |
| Date | 2008 |
| ISBN | 9780415954204 |
| Short Title | Latina/O Healing Practices |
| Library Catalog | library.bu.edu.ezproxy.bu.edu Library Catalog |
| Call Number | GR105.3 .L38 2008 |
| Date Added | Sat Oct 1 17:02:41 2011 |
| Modified | Sat Oct 1 17:02:41 2011 |
This edited volume focuses on the role of traditional or indigenous healers, as well as the application of traditional healing practices in contemporary counseling and therapeutic modalities with Latina/o people. The book offers a broad coverage of important topics, such as traditional healer’s views of mental/psychological health and well-being, the use of traditional healing techniques in contemporary psychotherapy, and herbal remedies in psychiatric practice. It also discusses common factors across traditional healing methods and contemporary psychotherapies, the importance of spirituality in counseling and everyday life, the application of indigenous healing practices with Latina/o undergraduates, indigenous techniques in working with perpetrators of domestic violence, and religious healing systems and biomedical models. The book is an important reference for anyone working within the general field of mental health practice and those seeking to understand culturally relevant practice with Latina/o populations.
| Type | Journal Article |
|---|---|
| Author | Kho Nishimura |
| Publication | Current Anthropology |
| Volume | 28 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | S59-S64 |
| Date | Aug. - Oct., 1987 |
| ISSN | 00113204 |
| URL | http://www.jstor.org.ezproxy.bu.edu/stable/2743439 |
| Accessed | Sun Nov 8 23:49:07 2009 |
| Library Catalog | JSTOR |
| Extra | ArticleType: primary_article / Issue Title: Supplement: An Anthropological Profile of Japan / Full publication date: Aug. - Oct., 1987 / Copyright © 1987 The University of Chicago Press |
| Date Added | Sat Oct 1 17:02:41 2011 |
| Modified | Sat Oct 1 17:02:41 2011 |
| Type | Book |
|---|---|
| Author | Shelley Anne Osterreich |
| Series | Bibliographies and indexes in American history |
| Series Number | no. 38 |
| Place | Westport, Conn |
| Publisher | Greenwood Press |
| Date | 1998 |
| ISBN | 0313301689 |
| Short Title | Native North American Shamanism |
| Library Catalog | library.bu.edu.ezproxy.bu.edu Library Catalog |
| Call Number | Z1209.2.N67 O77 1998 |
| Date Added | Sat Oct 1 17:02:41 2011 |
| Modified | Sat Oct 1 17:02:41 2011 |
| Type | Book |
|---|---|
| Author | Arvilla Payne-Jackson |
| Author | Mervyn C Alleyne |
| Place | Kingston, Jamaica |
| Publisher | University of the West Indies Press |
| Date | 2004 |
| ISBN | 9766401233 |
| Short Title | Jamaican Folk Medicine |
| Library Catalog | library.bu.edu.ezproxy.bu.edu Library Catalog |
| Call Number | GR121.J2 P39 2004 |
| Date Added | Sat Oct 1 17:02:41 2011 |
| Modified | Sat Oct 1 17:02:41 2011 |
This pioneering work is multi-disciplinary in approach as it examines the rich folk medicine of Jamaican. The authors analyse the historical and linguistic aspects of folk medicine, based on their research, extensive fieldwork and interviews. They explore the sociological and ethnological dimensions of common healing practices and Jamaica’s biodiversity, in both flora and in fauna. As is the case with other aspects of Jamaican traditional culture, Jamaican folk medicine is largely misunderstood and subject to negative pejorative attitudes. This comprehensive study challenges some of the myths and misinformation. Particular attention is paid to cultural transference from Africa and the use of herbals in African-Jamaican religions. The comprehensive book is of academic value to teachers, students and researchers, and can also aid practitioners and policy makers in the field of health and healing.
| Type | Journal Article |
|---|---|
| Author | Larry G. Peters |
| Abstract | The "calling" that inflicts the neophyte Tamang shaman is a "creative illness" reflecting an endogenous process that has the structure and function of a rite of passage. Shamanic apprenticeship includes the deliberate induction and mastery of trance states that originally afflicted the shaman. Mastery is equivalent to a psychotherapy, and Tamang initiation involves techniques that are also found in its Western and Eastern (yoga) counterparts. However, it is distinct from both in its social and psychological goals. [shamanism, altered states of consciousness, psychotherapy, religious experience, symbolism] |
| Publication | American Ethnologist |
| Volume | 9 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 21-46 |
| Date | Feb., 1982 |
| ISSN | 00940496 |
| URL | http://www.jstor.org.ezproxy.bu.edu/stable/644310 |
| Accessed | Sun Nov 8 23:27:32 2009 |
| Library Catalog | JSTOR |
| Extra | ArticleType: primary_article / Full publication date: Feb., 1982 / Copyright © 1982 American Anthropological Association |
| Date Added | Sat Oct 1 17:02:41 2011 |
| Modified | Sat Oct 1 17:02:41 2011 |
The “calling” that inflicts the neophyte Tamang shaman is a “creative illness” reflecting an endogenous process that has the structure and function of a rite of passage. Shamanic apprenticeship includes the deliberate induction and mastery of trance states that originally afflicted the shaman. Mastery is equivalent to a psychotherapy, and Tamang initiation involves techniques that are also found in its Western and Eastern (yoga) counterparts. However, it is distinct from both in its social and psychological goals. [shamanism, altered states of consciousness, psychotherapy, religious experience, symbolism]
| Type | Journal Article |
|---|---|
| Author | Amanda Porterfield |
| Publication | Journal of the American Academy of Religion |
| Volume | 55 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 721-739 |
| Date | Winter, 1987 |
| ISSN | 00027189 |
| Short Title | Shamanism |
| URL | http://www.jstor.org.ezproxy.bu.edu/stable/1464682 |
| Accessed | Sun Nov 8 23:49:25 2009 |
| Library Catalog | JSTOR |
| Extra | ArticleType: primary_article / Full publication date: Winter, 1987 / Copyright © 1987 American Academy of Religion |
| Date Added | Sat Oct 1 17:02:41 2011 |
| Modified | Sat Oct 1 17:02:41 2011 |
| Type | Journal Article |
|---|---|
| Author | David Riches |
| Abstract | The article lays out in schematic fashion a composite of socio-intellectual processes, arguabley evident in respect of all cosmologies, which might appropriately be labelled 'religous'. It does so by applying deductive reasoning to shamanism, the prevalent religion in societies whose social structures are ssimple and in whose cosmologies religious process is conspicuous; here the Canadian Inuit (Eskimo) provide the ethnographic focus. The article assumes that religious process finds its basis in fundamental contradictions concerning the conditions of social existence, namely in the antithesis between social structure and communitas. Cosmology is generated as this contradiction is contemplated by, respectively, laypeople and specialist, both with their own interests in view. The argument also considers such central cultural and analytical isues as the existence of distinctive notions of the human person, and the pertinence for the study of religion of, variously, 'secondary elaborations', systems of classification, and religious edicts; and it joins with Barth in emphasizing the salience of the specialist in 'cosmology-making'. |
| Publication | Man |
| Volume | 29 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 381-405 |
| Date | Jun., 1994 |
| Series | New Series |
| ISSN | 00251496 |
| Short Title | Shamanism |
| URL | http://www.jstor.org.ezproxy.bu.edu/stable/2804479 |
| Accessed | Sun Nov 8 23:49:53 2009 |
| Library Catalog | JSTOR |
| Extra | ArticleType: primary_article / Full publication date: Jun., 1994 / Copyright © 1994 Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland |
| Date Added | Sat Oct 1 17:02:41 2011 |
| Modified | Sat Oct 1 17:02:41 2011 |
The article lays out in schematic fashion a composite of socio-intellectual processes, arguable evident in respect of all cosmologies, which might appropriately be labeled ‘religious’. It does so by applying deductive reasoning to shamanism, the prevalent religion in societies whose social structures are simple and in whose cosmologies religious process is conspicuous; here the Canadian Inuit (Eskimo) provide the ethnographic focus. The article assumes that religious process finds its basis in fundamental contradictions concerning the conditions of social existence, namely in the antithesis between social structure and communitas. Cosmology is generated as this contradiction is contemplated by, respectively, laypeople and specialists, both with their own interests in view. The argument also considers such central cultural and analytical issues as the existence of distinctive notions of the human person, and the pertinence for the study of religion of, variously, ‘secondary elaborations’, systems of classification, and religious edicts; and it joins with Barth in emphasizing the salience of the specialist in ‘cosmology-making’.
| Type | Book |
|---|---|
| Author | W. H. R Rivers |
| Series | Routledge classics |
| Place | London |
| Publisher | Routledge |
| Date | 2001 |
| ISBN | 0415254035 |
| Short Title | Medicine, Magic, and Religion |
| Library Catalog | library.bu.edu.ezproxy.bu.edu Library Catalog |
| Call Number | GN477 .R5 2001 |
| Date Added | Sat Oct 1 17:02:41 2011 |
| Modified | Sat Oct 1 17:02:41 2011 |
This work represents the Fitzpatrick lectures delivered before the Royal College of Physicians of London in 1915 and 1916. It represents perhaps the first attempt to interpret with real knowledge and sympathetic insight the thoughts and ideas that find expression in primitive medicine. It is therefore a contribution of unique value to the history of medicine.
| Type | Book |
|---|---|
| Author | Maureen Trudelle Schwarz |
| Place | Norman |
| Publisher | University of Oklahoma Press |
| Date | 2008 |
| ISBN | 9780806139418 |
| Short Title | "I Choose Life" |
| Library Catalog | library.bu.edu.ezproxy.bu.edu Library Catalog |
| Call Number | E99.N3 S3577 2008 |
| Date Added | Sat Oct 1 17:02:41 2011 |
| Modified | Sat Oct 1 17:02:41 2011 |
This book investigates how Navajos navigate their medically and religiously pluralistic world while coping with illness. Focusing on Navajo attitudes toward invasive procedures, Schwarz reveals the ideological conflicts experienced by Navajo patients and the reasons behind the choices they make to promote their own health and healing.
| Type | Book |
|---|---|
| Author | Dennis Tedlock |
| Editor | Barbara Tedlock |
| Edition | 1st ed |
| Place | New York |
| Publisher | Liveright |
| Date | 1975 |
| ISBN | 0871405597 |
| Short Title | Teachings from the American Earth |
| Library Catalog | library.bu.edu.ezproxy.bu.edu Library Catalog |
| Call Number | E98.R3 T42 1975 |
| Date Added | Sat Oct 1 17:02:41 2011 |
| Modified | Sat Oct 1 17:02:41 2011 |
This collection of writings is from authors who are either Indians who have tried to make themselves heard, or whites who have tried to hear Indians. The first part of the book emphasizes the practical and includes Isaac Tens’s “Career of the Medicine Man”. The second section concentrates on the theoretical and contains Benjamin Lee Whorf’s “American Indian Model of the Universe” and chapters on Indian metaphysics, among other things. In addition to an introductory essay on the Indian’s stance towards reality, the editors have contributed chapters entitled “The Clown’s Way” and “An American Indian View of Death”.
| Type | Book |
|---|---|
| Author | Nicholas Thomas |
| Place | Ann Arbor |
| Publisher | University of Michigan Press |
| Date | 1994 |
| ISBN | 9780472105120 |
| Library Catalog | Open WorldCat |
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| Modified | Sat Oct 1 17:02:41 2011 |
The literature on shamanism and related topics is extensive, but has in general been biased toward curing and trance; the political and historical significance of shamanic activities has been largely neglected. The contributors to Shamanism, History, and the State--distinguished anthropologists and historians from England, Australia, and France--show that shamanism is not static and stable, but always changing as a result of political dynamics and historical processes.
| Type | Book |
|---|---|
| Author | Virgil J. Vogel |
| Publisher | University of Oklahoma Press |
| Date | 1990-09 |
| ISBN | 0806122935 |
| Library Catalog | Amazon.com |
| Date Added | Sat Oct 1 17:02:41 2011 |
| Modified | Sat Oct 1 17:02:41 2011 |
| Type | Journal Article |
|---|---|
| Author | Nancy Vuckovic |
| Author | Jennifer Schneider |
| Author | Louise A. Williams |
| Author | Michelle Ramirez |
| Abstract | Objective To evaluate participants' perceptions of illness, healing process, and experience of effects from shamanic treatment as reported from in-depth interviews.Theoretical Framework Consistent with a whole systems research model, qualitative methods were used to evaluate the outcomes and experiences of clinical trial participants. Quantitative results are reported elsewhere.Method Twenty participants completed five visits with a randomly assigned shamanic practitioner and completed pretreatment and posttreatment in-depth interviews conducted by trained, qualitative researchers.Context Some physical and psychological symptoms associated with temporomandibular joint disorders (TMD) may be indicative of the shamanic definition of soul loss. Because this was the first clinical trial of shamanic healing for TMD pain, a mixed-methods approach enabled researchers to capture a wide range of participants' experiences.Participants Eligible volunteers were women aged between 25 to 55 years, naive to shamanic healing, with a confirmed diagnosis of TMD and a pain level of three or higher on the Research Diagnostic Criteria Axis II questionnaire.Data Collection For consistency, interviewers followed a guide that allowed individual experiences to emerge. Interviews lasted about one hour, were recorded, and professionally transcribed.Analysis and Interpretation Following standard qualitative analysis procedures, researchers developed and applied thematic codes to transcribed text of interviews. Coded text was reviewed to generate summaries of thematic content.Main Results Although participants described physical changes, three times as much text was devoted to changes in self-awareness, capacity for coping, improvement in relationships, and taking better care of themselves. Their experience describes a process of transformation. |
| Publication | EXPLORE: The Journal of Science and Healing |
| Volume | 6 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Pages | 371-379 |
| Date | November |
| DOI | 10.1016/j.explore.2010.08.005 |
| ISSN | 1550-8307 |
| URL | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/B7MF9-51BY623-B/2/1446fb4026902b55074f16f8537653a8 |
| Accessed | Mon Dec 13 20:35:37 2010 |
| Date Added | Thu Sep 29 08:59:00 2011 |
| Modified | Thu Sep 29 08:59:00 2011 |
| Type | Journal Article |
|---|---|
| Author | James B. Waldram |
| Abstract | The efficacy of traditional medicine is an issue that continues to vex medical anthropology. This article critically examines how the efficacy of traditional medicine has been conceived, operationalized, and studied and argues that a consensus remains elusive. Efficacy must be seen as fluid and shifting, the product of a negotiated, but not necessarily shared, understanding by those involved in the sickness episode, including physicians/healers, patients, and members of the community. Medical anthropology needs to return to the field to gather more data on indigenous understandings of efficacy to counteract the biases inherent in the utilization of biomedical understandings and methods characteristic of much previous work. |
| Publication | Medical Anthropology Quarterly |
| Volume | 14 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 603-625 |
| Date | Dec., 2000 |
| Series | New Series |
| ISSN | 07455194 |
| Short Title | The Efficacy of Traditional Medicine |
| URL | http://www.jstor.org.ezproxy.bu.edu/stable/649723 |
| Accessed | Sun Nov 8 23:57:59 2009 |
| Library Catalog | JSTOR |
| Extra | ArticleType: primary_article / Issue Title: Theme Issue: Ritual Healing in Navajo Society / Full publication date: Dec., 2000 / Copyright © 2000 American Anthropological Association |
| Date Added | Sat Oct 1 17:02:41 2011 |
| Modified | Sat Oct 1 17:02:41 2011 |
The efficacy of traditional medicine is an issue that continues to vex medical anthropology. This article critically examines how the efficacy of traditional medicine has been conceived, operationalized, and studied and argues that a consensus remains elusive. Efficacy must be seen as fluid and shifting, the product of a negotiated, but not necessarily shared, understanding by those involved in the sickness episode, including physicians/healers, patients, and members of the community. Medical anthropology needs to return to the field to gather more data on indigenous understandings of efficacy to counteract the biases inherent in the utilization of biomedical understandings and methods characteristic of much previous work.
| Type | Journal Article |
|---|---|
| Author | Roger Walsh |
| Publication | Journal of the American Academy of Religion |
| Volume | 65 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 101-124 |
| Date | Spring, 1997 |
| ISSN | 00027189 |
| Short Title | The Psychological Health of Shamans |
| URL | http://www.jstor.org.ezproxy.bu.edu/stable/1465820 |
| Accessed | Sun Nov 8 23:29:04 2009 |
| Library Catalog | JSTOR |
| Extra | ArticleType: primary_article / Full publication date: Spring, 1997 / Copyright © 1997 American Academy of Religion |
| Date Added | Sat Oct 1 17:02:41 2011 |
| Modified | Sat Oct 1 17:02:41 2011 |
| Type | Book |
|---|---|
| Author | Ted C Williams |
| Series | The Iroquois and their neighbors |
| Edition | 1st ed |
| Place | Syracuse, N.Y |
| Publisher | Syracuse University Press |
| Date | 2007 |
| ISBN | 9780815608639 |
| Library Catalog | library.bu.edu.ezproxy.bu.edu Library Catalog |
| Call Number | E99.T9 W55 2007 |
| Date Added | Sat Oct 1 17:02:41 2011 |
| Modified | Sat Oct 1 17:02:41 2011 |
| Type | Book |
|---|---|
| Author | Michael Winkelman |
| Edition | 2nd ed. |
| Place | Santa Barbara Calif. |
| Publisher | Praeger |
| Date | 2010 |
| ISBN | 9780313381812 |
| Date Added | Thu Sep 29 09:03:07 2011 |
| Modified | Thu Sep 29 09:03:07 2011 |
| Type | Journal Article |
|---|---|
| Author | Justin Woodman |
| Publication | Anthropology Today |
| Volume | 14 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Pages | 23-24 |
| Date | Dec., 1998 |
| ISSN | 0268540X |
| URL | http://www.jstor.org.ezproxy.bu.edu/stable/2783241 |
| Accessed | Sun Nov 8 23:50:13 2009 |
| Library Catalog | JSTOR |
| Extra | ArticleType: primary_article / Full publication date: Dec., 1998 / Copyright © 1998 Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland |
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| Modified | Sat Oct 1 17:02:41 2011 |