Medicine, healing and performance
Whether it is the binding of shattered bones or the creation of herbal remedies, human agency is a central feature of the healing process. Both archaeological and anthropological research has contributed much to our understanding of the performative aspects of medicine.
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9781782971580, 1782971580
913074950
Early neolithic shamans? : performance, healing and the power of skulls at Hambledon Hill, Dorset / Ffion Reynolds
Before Hippocrates : healing practices in ancient Egypt / Roger Forshaw
Who is performing what and for whom? : the dedication, construction and maintenance of a healing shrine in Egypt / Jane Draycott
Disease, sin and the walking dead in medieval England, c.1100-1350 : a note on the documentary and archaeological evidence / Stephen Gordon
Pilgrimage, performance and miracle cures in the twelfth-century miracula of St Aebbe / Hilary Powell
Gendered attitudes towards physical tending amongst the piously religious of late medieval Sweden / Johanna Bergqvist
The rattlesnake and the otter : anthropology, gender, and contraception among the Niitsítapi (Blackfoot) in the 1930s / Kristin Burnett
Re-covering the Hiroshima maidens / Amanda Jane Graham
Writing stones and secret shrines : an exploration of the materialisation of indigenous and Islamic belief within West African spiritual medicine / Bryn Trevelyan James
A note on the ethnomedical universe of the Asante : an indigenous people in Ghana / De-Valera Botchway
Spirituality in knowledge production and the practice of traditional herbal medicine among the Yoruba people in southwest Nigeria / Ojo Melvin Agunbiade