Women as Healers - Cross-cultural Perspectives (Paperback)

In ""Women as Healers"" 13 contributors explore the intersection of feminist anthropology and medical anthropology in eleven case studies of women in traditional and emergent healing roles in diverse parts of the world. In both mundane healing roles such as family healers and specialized healing roles such as shamans, diviner-mediums and midwives, women throughout the world pursue strategic ends through healing, manipulate cultural images to effect cures and explain misfortune and shape and are shaped by the social and political contexts in which they work. In an introductory chapter, Carol Shepherd McClain traces the evolution of ideas in medical anthropology and in the anthropology of women that have both constrained and expanded our understanding of the significance of gender to healing - one of the most fundamental and universal of human activities.

General

Imprint:	Rutgers University Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	May 1989
First published:	June 1989
Editors:	Carol Shepherd McClain
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 16mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	272
ISBN-13:	978-0-8135-1370-6
Categories:	Books > Medicine > Nursing & ancillary services > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Anthropology > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Gender studies > Women's studies > Feminism
LSN:	0-8135-1370-7
Barcode:	9780813513706

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