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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…
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
0
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.
Shamanism, Discourse, Modernity considers indigenous peoples' struggles for human rights, anxieties about anthropocentric mastery of nature, neoliberal statecraft and entrepreneurialism of the self. In doing so, it engages with shamanism's manifold meanings in a world increasing…
Explores the primal healing methods of shamans all over the world, showing that healing is not merely the alleviation of symptoms but a transformation of one's relationship to life.