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CONTRIBUTORS : Jon Lee Maddox, H. lan Hogbin, Leonard B. Glick, Richard L. Currier, Benjamin D. Paul, Jessica R. mayer, Victor Turne, Rene Devisc, Harriet Ngubane. CONTENTS: The spirit theory in early medicine, spriits and the healing of the ontong java, medicine as an ethnographic category : the gimi of the new guinea highlands, the hot-cold syndrome and symbolic balance in mexican and spanish-american folkmedicine, the maya bonesetter as sacred specialist, body, psyche and society : conceptions of illness in ommura, eastern highlands, papua new guinea, lunda medicine and the treatment of disease, processes for the articulation of meaning and ritual healing among the northern yaka ( zaire), the ancestors and illness among the zulu, November 2001, pp 12+312, bibliography, jacket, size 22 * 14 cm, cloth Bound, ISBN 81-7755-195-7, footnote references.
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