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Local health traditions : plurality and marginality in South Asia
- Title
- Local health traditions : plurality and marginality in South Asia / edited by Arima Mishra.
- Publication
- Hyderabad, Telangana, India : Orient BlackSwan, 2019.
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Mishra, Arima
- Description
- xvi, 328 pages : illustrations; 23 cm
- Summary
- With a special reference to India.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Folklore.
- Note
- Contributed articles.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Introduction / Arima Mishra -- Section I. Legitimacy and recognition -- 1. Authenticity , alliances and results : notions of legitimacy held by traditional healers in South India / Devaki Nambiar, Arima Mishra, Harilal Madhavan, Sarika Kadam, Shrish N. R., Steffy Dhayalan and Pooja Venkatesh -- 2. Accreditation, certification and self-regulation : an innovative approach for strengthening and reintegrating traditional community health care providers / Unnikrishnan Payyappallimana, Hariramamurthi Govindaswamy, Sarin Sasikumar and Debjani Roy -- 3. Whom do the rural poor consul for health care and how much do they spend in India's pluralistic health care arenas? / Mark Nichter -- 4. Medical pluralism and the political economy of obstetric care among Bangladeshi women in Britain / Sultana Mustafa Khanum -- Section II. Documentation and systematisation of traditional knowledge -- 5. From siddha corpus to siddha medicine : reflection on the reduction of siddha knowledge through exploration of manuscripts / Brigitte Sebastia -- 6. Family repositories to 'knowledge commons' : the discourse of documenting local health traditions in contemporary kerala / Harilal Madhavan and Pravenn Lal -- 7. Documenting 'folk' Ayurvedic knowledge in Uttarakhand : insights from critical medical anthology / Moe Nakazora -- 8. Documentation of tradition health knowledge : to what end? / Arima Mishra and Devaki Nambiar -- Section III. Gender in healing -- 9. Nested marginalities : women in healing in South India / Arima Mishra, Maya Annie Elias, Devaki Nambiar and Rajeev B. R. -- 10. Ritual pollution and women's blood : listening to Dais / Janet Chawla -- 11. Dais : transforming the traditions / Renu Khanna -- 12. May the vital force be with you : an Indian homeopathic doctor's approach to the gendered ills of our time / Cecilia Coale Van Hollen.
- ISBN
- 9789352876617
- 935287661X
- LCCN
- 2019347415
- OCLC
- on1117738290
- 1117738290
- SCSB-14536934
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries