Research Catalog

Title

Wind, life, health : anthropological and historical perspectives / edited by Elisabeth Hsu and Chris Low.

Publication

Malden, MA ; Oxford : Blackwell/Royal Anthropological Institute, 2008.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Hsu, Elisabeth.
• Low, Chris, 1966-

Description

viii, 178 pages : illustrations; 25 cm

Summary

"Through a series of thought-provoking articles, Wind, Life, Health: Anthropological and Historical Perspectives examines people's intimate relationships with the wind. Seeking a balance between detailed ethnography and broad theoretical insights, the editors have gathered a diverse group of contributors whose works illustrate the similar patterns of human/wind relationships across cultures - hunters and gatherers in the polar regions, inhabitants of the Malaysian rain forest, Andaman Islands, ancient India, China, Greece, Muslim East Africa, Victorian England, and mountain-dwelling Swiss. We discover how people through history have grappled - physically and conceptually - with winds and spirits, and how it affected their practice."--Jacket.

Uniform Title

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute. Special issue

Subject

• Human beings > Effect of climate on
• Human beings > Effect of environment on
• Winds
• Environmental health
• Medicine, Traditional
• Environmental Medicine
• Wind
• wind (weather phenomena)
• Environmental health
• Human beings > Effect of climate on
• Human beings > Effect of environment on
• Winds

Note

• "First published as a special issue of The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

1. Introduction / Chris Low and Elisabeth Hsu -- 2. Earth, sky, wind, and weather / Tim Ingold -- 3. Wafting on the wind: smell and the cycle of spirit and matter / David Parkin -- 4. 'Blowing 'cross the crest of Mount Galeng': winds of the voice, winds of the spirits / Marina Roseman -- 5. Khoisan wind: hunting and healing / Chris Low -- 6. Time to move: winds and the political economy of space in Andamanese culture / Vishvajit Pandya -- 7. The bodily winds in ancient India revisited / Kenneth G. Zysk -- 8. The experience of wind in early and medieval Chinese medicine / Elisabeth Hsu -- 9. Pneuma between body and soul / Geoffrey Lloyd.

ISBN

• 9781405178938
• 1405178930

LCCN

2007042074

OCLC

• ocn176861025
• 176861025
• SCSB-1466335

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library