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Medicine, healing and performance

Effie Gemi-Iordanou (Editor)
LCCN 2013050575, ISBN 9781782971580
publication
Oxford; Philadelphia : Oxbow Books, 2014
191 s.
edited by Effie Gemi-Iordanou, Stephen Gordon, Robert Matthew, Ellen McInnes, Rhiannon Pettitt
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Bibliography, Non-fiction literature
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Medicin--historia, Mental healing, Schamanism, Traditional medicine., Medical archaeology., Mental healing., Spiritual healing., Shamanism.
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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.

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Effie Gemi-Iordanou (Editor)
Classification
610 (DDC Classification), V:k (kssb)
Identifier
LCCN 2013050575, ISBN 9781782971580
Title resource
Medicine, healing and performance
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edited by Effie Gemi-Iordanou, Stephen Gordon, Robert Matthew, Ellen McInnes, Rhiannon Pettitt
publication
Oxford; Philadelphia : Oxbow Books, 2014
Extent
191 s.
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  • Online version:: Medicine, healing and performance9781782971689.
  • Includes bibliographical references..
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GN477 (LCC Classification)
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16533066

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