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Nowadays, a plethora of treatment technologies is available to the
consumer, each employing a variety of concepts of the body, self,
sickness and healing. This volume explores the options, strategies
and consequences that are both relevant and necessary for patients
and practitioners who are manoeuvring this medical plurality.
Although wideranging in scope and covering areas as diverse as
India, Ecuador, Ghana and Norway, central to all contributions is
the observation that technologies of healing are founded on
socially learned and to some extent fluid experiences of body and
self.
Nowadays a plethora of treatment technologies is available to the
consumer, each employing a variety of concepts of the body, self,
sickness and healing. This volume explores the options, strategies
and consequences that are both relevant and necessary for patients
and practitioners who are manoeuvring this medical plurality.
Although wideranging in scope and covering areas as diverse as
India, Ecuador, Ghana and Norway, central to all contributions is
the observation that technologies of healing are founded on
socially learned and to some extent fluid experiences of body and
self.
This is a comprehensive work and includes cultural studies and
anthropology of revival movements from a historical perspective; it
is focused on the Dance House phenomenon, which includes gender and
ethnic aspects from a cultural and medical anthropological context.
This book deals with the theory of tradition and cultural transfer
of heritage through pedagogy and counterculture movements, with an
emphasis on the the Wundtian contribution and its Hungarian
counterparts. The Dance House phenomenon is presented through an
auto-anthropological perspective, including the author's field work
results. This book is recommended to those interested in the
cultural studies of dance, subcultures and heritage, sociology of
culture, ethnochoreology, cultural anthropology, medical
anthropology, gender studies, religious studies and human ecology.
"Attached Files" is a selection of lectures and papers written by
Imre Lazar, a medical anthropologist with twenty-five years of
experience, situated at the crossroads and frontiers of several
disciplines, including anthropology, health sciences, religious
studies, human ecology, and environmental ethics. The shared focus,
connecting these borderlands into a common semantic network, is the
problem of the synergic logic of human bonds and attachment
embodied by somatic, social, institutional and symbolic structures.
The first part of the book deals with pluralism and the
enculturation of the medical practice and its anthropological
perspectives. The concept of attachment, metaphorized by the title,
also provides a common ground to envisage cultural history,
philosophy, literature, and biomedical sciences in terms of
synergic human agency and its obstacles. The book integrates
various strands of anthropology, such as the evolutionary and the
symbolic, and the materialist and the idealist. The book will be
useful for those interested in the fields of medical anthropology,
health psychology, religious studies, human ecology, ecophilosophy,
and environmental ethics.
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