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Healing practices in the South Pacific
- Title
- Healing practices in the South Pacific / edited by Claire D.F. Parsons.
- Publication
- [Laie, Hawaii] : Institute for Polynesian Studies ; Honolulu, Hawaii : University of Hawaii Press [distributor], [1985], ©1985.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Request in advance | GN670 .H43 1985 | Off-site |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Parsons, Claire D. F.
- Description
- xii, 250 pages : maps; 24 cm
- Subjects
- Note
- Maps on lining papers.
- Includes index.
- Bibliography (note)
- Bibliography: p. [235]-244.
- Contents
- Samoan medicine / Cluny Macpherson -- Illness and healing in Nanumea, Tuvalu / Anne Chambers and Keith S. Chambers -- Healing in central Espiritu Santo, Vanuatu / Tomas Ludvigson -- Contemporary healing practices in Tikopia, Solomon Islands / Judith Macdonald -- Tongan healing practices / Claire D. F. Parsons -- Contemporary healing practices in East Futuna / Bruce Biggs -- Traditional healing practices of Rarotonga, Cook Islands / Josephine Baddeley -- Physical and social boundaries in Pukapukan theories of disease / Julia A. Hecht -- Tahitian healing / Antony Hooper -- Midwives and midwifery in Western Samoa / Patricia J. Kinloch -- Notes on Maori sickness knowledge and healing practices / Claire D. F. Parsons.
- ISBN
- 0939154412 :
- LCCN
- 85014191
- OCLC
- ocm12217025
- SCSB-4293605
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries