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The Healing Landscapes of Central and Southeastern Siberia (Paperback)
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The Healing Landscapes of Central and Southeastern Siberia (Paperback)
Series: Patterns of Northern Traditional Healing Series
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Total price: R883
Discovery Miles: 8 830
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This volume documents healing traditions in Eastern Siberia in an
area extending from Lake Baikal to the Arctic Ocean. The region
shows an interesting unity in healing traditions across a wide
range of landscape types and culture areas: from the taiga-steppe
borderlands influenced by Tibetan and Russian practices in the
south, to the north where regional shamanic traditions prevail.
There are broad similarities in using unrefined natural materials
for healing, as well as in a concern over the 'spiritual'
foundations of health, with an accent upon the land as an important
dimension. Due to this diversity, this region provides a strong
point of comparison to ecologies in other parts of the circumpolar
North. The chapters document a blossoming of autonomous healing
traditions in post-Soviet Siberia resulting from a social crisis in
the aftermath of the collapse of the previous centralized health
system. It is a type of 'medical pluralism' marked by a popularity
of alternate, non-clinical treatments. But, the sudden upsurge in
autonomous cures also speaks to the silent survival of these
knowledge traditions in a context where the official medical
practice dominated the public sphere for seventy years.
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