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The performance of healing is a collection of essays by anthropologists covering a wide range of medical, holistic, and religious aspects of healing and death. The contributors broaden the field of medical anthropology by demonstrating that healing involves the senses in treatme…
The performance of healing is a collection of essays by anthropologists covering a wide range of medical, holistic, and religious aspects of healing and death. The contributors broaden the field of medical anthropology by demonstrating that healing involves the senses in treatme…
Uses an ethnographic example of ritual violence to illuminate cultural expression more widely and thereby reformulate anthropological and historical approaches to warfare and violence.
Korean Shamanism: the cultural paradox
by Kim, Chongho
fromVitality of indigenous religions
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Type: Book
Korean Shamanism: the cultural paradox
by Kim, Chongho
fromVitality of indigenous religions
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Type: Book
Korean Shamanism: the cultural paradox
by Kim, Chongho
fromVitality of indigenous religions
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Type: Book
Chongho Kim's study is based upon fieldwork in the small town of Soy and in Seoul. The study addresses the place of shamans in modern Korean society and the cultural paradox of the existence of shamanism in a society that sees such a phenomenon as a kindof superstition.
