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The dissertation is about Sasak ethnomedicine in a pluralistic medical setting and argues that the organization of medical knowledge has profound consequences for people's health. The Sasak people live on Lombok, an island with the dubious distinction of having a population with…

The Lingsar temple festival is the largest and most important religious celebration in Lombok, the island just east of Bali in Indonesia. Both the migrant Hindu Balinese, a religious and political minority, and a portion of the Muslim Sasak, the majority culture, participate in …