Healing the Modern in a Central Javanese City

Healing the Modern in a Central Javanese City - Carolina Academic Press Ethnographic Studies in Medical Anthropology Series

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Publisher's Synopsis

Focusing on hybrid health practices and perceptions in Yogyarta, Indonesia, this ethnographic study describes Javanese approaches to their own health and the health of modernity. Based on his observations of and interviews with the people there, Ferzacca (University of Lethbridge) details a pluralistic system of urban medicine. In so doing, he desc

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ISBN: 9780890892206
Publisher: Carolina Academic Press
Imprint: Carolina Academic Press
Pub date:
DEWEY: 362.1095982
DEWEY edition: 21
Language: English
Number of pages: 280
Weight: 453g
Height: 215mm
Width: 146mm
Spine width: 19mm