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Author : John Cawte
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (92 download)
Download or read book Voodoo Death and Dehydration written by John Cawte and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comments on Eastwells Voodoo and the mechanism for dispatch of the dying in East Arnhem, Australia.
Author : Harry William Breydon Eastwell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (92 download)
Download or read book Voodoo Death and the Mechanism for Dispatch of the Dying in East Arnhem, Australia written by Harry William Breydon Eastwell and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Death mechanism is dehydration; sorcery syndrome in Milingimbi region; psychosocial sequence for the dispatch of the dying.
Author : John Alan Cohan
Publisher : Bentham Science Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1608050874
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (8 download)
Download or read book The Primitive Mind and Modern Man written by John Alan Cohan and published by Bentham Science Publishers. This book was released on 2010-12-30 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is in the field of trans-cultural psychology, and is intended for college courses in anthropology and psychology, and general readership. the book focuses on intriguing facts about primitive cultures around the world, and provides insights into living traditions and different world views. a principal theme of the book is that we can gain a better understanding of ourselves by a "detour" to other cultures. the book shows how modern ways of thinking are parallel to those of primitive cultures, and engages readers to become more aware of who they are. As shown throughout the book, there is not, after all, a very wide gulf between primitive and modern cultures. the book covers many topics including animism, shamanism, totemism, hunting and cultivation rituals, altered states of consciousness, envy and the evil eye, how people deal with conflicts, potlatches, cargo cults, how people satisfy the need for social approval, culture-bound syndromes, folk medicine, treatment of women, raising of children, nomadic peoples, treatment of the dead, and other topics.
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Publisher : Rowman Altamira
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 649 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book written by and published by Rowman Altamira. This book was released on with total page 649 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Christopher Justice
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791432624
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (326 download)
Download or read book Dying the Good Death written by Christopher Justice and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1997-02-27 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring the Hindu concepts of good and bad deaths, this rich ethnography follows pilgrims who choose to travel to the holy city of Kashi to die.
Author : Wade Davis
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1451628366
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (516 download)
Download or read book The Serpent and the Rainbow written by Wade Davis and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-10-05 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A scientific investigation and personal adventure story about zombis and the voudoun culture of Haiti by a Harvard scientist. In April 1982, ethnobotanist Wade Davis arrived in Haiti to investigate two documented cases of zombis—people who had reappeared in Haitian society years after they had been officially declared dead and had been buried. Drawn into a netherworld of rituals and celebrations, Davis penetrated the vodoun mystique deeply enough to place zombification in its proper context within vodoun culture. In the course of his investigation, Davis came to realize that the story of vodoun is the history of Haiti—from the African origins of its people to the successful Haitian independence movement, down to the present day, where vodoun culture is, in effect, the government of Haiti’s countryside. The Serpent and the Rainbow combines anthropological investigation with a remarkable personal adventure to illuminate and finally explain a phenomenon that has long fascinated Americans.
Author : Wade Davis
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 0807887587
Total Pages : 367 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (78 download)
Download or read book Passage of Darkness written by Wade Davis and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2000-11-09 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1982, Harvard-trained ethnobotanist Wade Davis traveled into the Haitian countryside to research reports of zombies--the infamous living dead of Haitian folklore. A report by a team of physicians of a verifiable case of zombification led him to try to obtain the poison associated with the process and examine it for potential medical use. Interdisciplinary in nature, this study reveals a network of power relations reaching all levels of Haitian political life. It sheds light on recent Haitian political history, including the meteoric rise under Duvalier of the Tonton Macoute. By explaining zombification as a rational process within the context of traditional Vodoun society, Davis demystifies one of the most exploited of folk beliefs, one that has been used to denigrate an entire people and their religion.
Author : John H. Bodley
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1442271906
Total Pages : 459 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (422 download)
Download or read book Cultural Anthropology written by John H. Bodley and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2016-10-24 with total page 459 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Bodley’s Cultural Anthropology provides students with the anthropological tools to question and understand their own culture and the world. The sixth edition of this dynamic book has been updated and revised throughout, with a shorter length and a more streamlined focus. Updates include material on China and Hindu South Asia combined into a single chapter, a new chapter assessing the imperial world and the breakdown of states, and new examples throughout. In this introduction to the basic concepts of cultural anthropology, Bodley challenges students to consider “big questions” about the nature of cultural systems: What is “natural” and what is “cultural” about humans? What is it like to be human under different cultural conditions, and how do socio-cultural systems of different cultural scales satisfy basic human needs? Are race, language, and environment determinants of culture? What are the human costs and benefits of socioeconomic growth? What have been the major turning points in human history? What role do individuals play in shaping culture? Employing a scale and power approach, the text examines a representative sampling of the world’s major cultural areas and dominant civilizations, from Australian Aborigines, Amazonia, and East African pastoralists to Pacific Islanders, Mesopotamia, China, Hindu India, the British Empire, and the United States; these cultures are shown in depth, as adapting, integrated systems—and as part of regional, continental, and global systems. He concludes the text with a wide-ranging assessment of human problems in the contemporary commercial world, emphasizing inequality, poverty, environmental degradation, and sustainability. A complimentary instructor’s manual, test bank, and companion website are available to enhance teaching and learning. See “Resources” tab for additional information.
Author : Nancy Scheper-Hughes
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520911563
Total Pages : 632 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)
Download or read book Death Without Weeping written by Nancy Scheper-Hughes and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-11-10 with total page 632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When lives are dominated by hunger, what becomes of love? When assaulted by daily acts of violence and untimely death, what happens to trust? Set in the lands of Northeast Brazil, this is an account of the everyday experience of scarcity, sickness and death that centres on the lives of the women and children of a hillside "favela". Bringing her readers to the impoverished slopes above the modern plantation town of Bom Jesus de Mata, where she has worked on and off for 25 years, Nancy Scheper-Hughes follows three generations of shantytown women as they struggle to survive through hard work, cunning and triage. It is a story of class relations told at the most basic level of bodies, emotions, desires and needs. Most disturbing - and controversial - is her finding that mother love, as conventionally understood, is something of a bourgeois myth, a luxury for those who can reasonably expect, as these women cannot, that their infants will live.
Author : James Houk
Publisher : Temple University Press
ISBN 13 : 143990376X
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (399 download)
Download or read book Spirits, Blood and Drums written by James Houk and published by Temple University Press. This book was released on 2010-06-10 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An anthropologist demystifies a fascinating , eclectic Caribbean religion.
Author : Neil Thompson
Publisher : Aboriginal Studies Press
ISBN 13 : 085575561X
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (557 download)
Download or read book Aboriginal Health written by Neil Thompson and published by Aboriginal Studies Press. This book was released on 1989-12 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes health policy and programs; nutrition; child health; communicable diseases - sexually transmitted and leprosy; endocrine and metabolic diseases; blood and blood-forming diseases; mental health; nervous system and sensory organs - eyes and ears; diseases of circulatory system, respiratory system, digestive system, genito-urinary system, skin, musculoskeletal system; obstetrics and gynaecology; women's health; and substance abuse.
Author : Wen-Shing Tseng
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135936277
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (359 download)
Download or read book Cultural Competence in Forensic Mental Health written by Wen-Shing Tseng and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-09 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As culturally relevant psychiatry becomes common practice, the need for competent and culturally relevant forensic psychiatry comes to the forefront. This volume, written by one expert in cultural psychiatry and another in forensic psychiatry addresses that need. By combining their expertise in these areas, they are able to develop and create a new body of knowledge and experiences addressing the issue of the cultural aspects of forensic psychiatry. Beginning with an introduction to cultural and ethnic aspects of forensic psychiatry, this volume will address basic issues of the practice, as well as more detailed areas ranging from the various psychiatric disorders to intensive analysis and discussion of how to perform forensic psychiatric practice in a culturally relevant and competent way. Also the book suggests methods for continued awareness and sensitivity to issues of cultural and ethnic diversity in the field.
Author : Brian P. Levack
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136538275
Total Pages : 446 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (365 download)
Download or read book Witchcraft in the Modern World written by Brian P. Levack and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-28 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Witchcraft and magical beliefs have captivated historians and artists for millennia, and stimulated an extraordinary amount of research among scholars in a wide range of disciplines. This new collection, from the editor of the highly acclaimed 1992 set, Articles on Witchcraft, Magic, and Demonology, extends the earlier volumes by bringing together the most important articles of the past twenty years and covering the profound changes in scholarly perspective over the past two decades. Featuring thematically organized papers from a broad spectrum of publications, the volumes in this set encompass the key issues and approaches to witchcraft research in fields such as gender studies, anthropology, sociology, literature, history, psychology, and law. This new collection provides students and researchers with an invaluable resource, comprising the most important and influential discussions on this topic. A useful introductory essay written by the editor precedes each volume.
Author : Arthur C. Lehmann
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 508 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Magic, Witchcraft, and Religion written by Arthur C. Lehmann and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comparative reader that takes an anthropological approach to the study of religious beliefs, both strange and familiar.
Author : Rosemary Guiley
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1438126840
Total Pages : 449 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (381 download)
Download or read book The Encyclopedia of Witches, Witchcraft and Wicca written by Rosemary Guiley and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2010-05-12 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Praise for the previous editions:"Clearly the best reference work on the subject now available."
Author : Jay Katz
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801857805
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (578 download)
Download or read book The Silent World of Doctor and Patient written by Jay Katz and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2002-11 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historically, the doctor-patient relationship has been based on a one-way trust--despite recent judicial attempts to give patients a greater voice. Seeing a growing need for more honest and complete communication between physician and patient, Dr. Jay Katz advocates a new, informed dialogue that respects the rights and needs of both sides. A new Preface outlines changes since the book's publication in 1984.
Author : Devon Marshall
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1471770478
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (717 download)
Download or read book Voodoo Woman written by Devon Marshall and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-07-02 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Willie Rae Flynn, once hired killer, now a private detective in New Orleans, forced to keep others at arm's length, yet hopelessly in love with a woman she dare not get close to... Drawn into a case involving Voodoo and an FBI agent with an agenda, Flynn must make a dark bargain in order to save the life of the woman she wishes she could love. A dark thriller with a dash of romance and a sprinkling of the supernatural, from Devon Marshall - author of the acclaimed 'Dante's Awakening ( Vampires of Hollywood #1 )'.
