Daughters Of Hariti
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Daughters Of Hariti
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Author : Santi Rozario
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2003-09-02
Daughters Of Hariti written by Santi Rozario and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-09-02 with Social Science categories.
Hariti is the ancient Indian goddess of childbirth and women healers, known at one time throughout South and Southeast Asia from India to Nepal and Bali. Daughters of Hariti looks at her 'daughters' today, female midwives and healers in many different cultures across the region. It also traces the transformation of childbirth in these cultures under the impact of Western biomedical technology, national and international health policies and the wider factors of social and economic change. The authors ask what can be done to improve the high rates of maternal and infant deaths and illnesses still associated with childbirth in most societies in this area and whether the wholesale replacement of indigenous knowledge by Western biomedical technology is necessarily a good thing.
The Daughters Of H Rit
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Author : Santi Rozario
language : en
Publisher: Psychology Press
Release Date : 2002
The Daughters Of H Rit written by Santi Rozario and has been published by Psychology Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Medical categories.
The authors ask what can be done to improve maternal and infant deaths and illnesses still associated with childbirth in this area and whether the wholesale replacement of indigenous knowledge by Western biomedical technology is a good thing.
Multiple Medical Realities
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Author : Helle Johannessen
language : en
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Release Date : 2006
Multiple Medical Realities written by Helle Johannessen and has been published by Berghahn Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Health & Fitness categories.
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.
Tantric Revisionings
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Author : Geoffrey Samuel
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2017-09-08
Tantric Revisionings written by Geoffrey Samuel and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-09-08 with Religion categories.
Tantric Revisionings presents stimulating new perspectives on Hindu and Buddhist religion, particularly their Tantric versions, in India, Tibet or in modern Western societies. Geoffrey Samuel adopts an historically and textually informed anthropological approach, seeking to locate and understand religion in its social and cultural context. The question of the relation between 'popular' (folk, domestic, village, 'shamanic') religion and elite (literary, textual, monastic) religion forms a recurring theme through these studies. Six chapters have not been previously published; the previously published studies included are in publications which are difficult to locate outside major specialist libraries.
Religion And The Subtle Body In Asia And The West
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Author : Geoffrey Samuel
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013-04-12
Religion And The Subtle Body In Asia And The West written by Geoffrey Samuel and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-04-12 with Religion categories.
Subtle-body practices are found particularly in Indian, Indo-Tibetan and East Asian societies, but have become increasingly familiar in Western societies, especially through the various healing and yogic techniques and exercises associated with them. This book explores subtle-body practices from a variety of perspectives, and includes both studies of these practices in Asian and Western contexts. The book discusses how subtle-body practices assume a quasi-material level of human existence that is intermediate between conventional concepts of body and mind. Often, this level is conceived of in terms of an invisible structure of channels, associated with the human body, through which flows of quasi-material substance take place. Contributors look at how subtle-body concepts form the basic explanatory structure for a wide range of practices. These include forms of healing, modes of exercise and martial arts as well as religious practices aimed at the refinement and transformation of the human mindbody complex. By highlighting how subtle-body practices of many kinds have been introduced into Western societies in recent years, the book explores the possibilities for new models of understanding which these concepts open up. It is a useful contribution to studies on Asian Religion and Philosophy.
Birth And Birthgivers
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Author : Janet Chawla
language : en
Publisher: Har-Anand Publications
Release Date : 2006
Birth And Birthgivers written by Janet Chawla and has been published by Har-Anand Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Childbirth categories.
This volume presents waried essays exploring women's voices, agencies and aesthetics in the traditional handling of chilbearing. Ayurveda as it comprehends reproduction, sohars (birth songs), birth narratives cord-cutters, dais' knowledge and compensation systems, as well as analyses of biomedical dominance and erasure of indigenous knowledge all provide a peek bechind the purdah in this critical reclamation of tradition.
White Bones Red Rot Black Snakes
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Author : Bhikkhu Sujato
language : en
Publisher: Bhikkhu Sujato
Release Date : 2011-01-05
White Bones Red Rot Black Snakes written by Bhikkhu Sujato and has been published by Bhikkhu Sujato this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-01-05 with Religion categories.
Enchanting, powerful, horrific, beautiful, wise, deadly, compassionate, seductive. Women in Buddhist story and image are all these things and more. She takes the signs of the ancient goddess - the lotus, the sacred grove, the serpent, the sacrifice - and uses them in astonishing new ways. Her story is one of suffering and great trials, and through it all an unquenchable longing to be free. This beautifully illustrated work is as layered and subversive as mythology itself. Based directly on authentic Buddhist texts, and informed with insights from psychology and comparative mythology, it takes a fresh look at how Buddhist women have been depicted by men and how they have depicted themselves.
New Horizons In Medical Anthropology
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Author : Margaret Lock
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2003-09-02
New Horizons In Medical Anthropology written by Margaret Lock and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-09-02 with Medical categories.
These cutting edge essays and case studies on issues like AIDS, medical technologies and overpopulation, are collected here in honour of Charles Leslie, the influential anthropologist.
Medicine Between Science And Religion
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Author : Vincanne Adams
language : en
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Release Date : 2010-12-01
Medicine Between Science And Religion written by Vincanne Adams and has been published by Berghahn Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-12-01 with Social Science categories.
There is a growing interest in studies that document the relationship between science and medicine - as ideas, practices, technologies and outcomes - across cultural, national, geographic terrain. Tibetan medicine is not only known as a scholarly medical tradition among other Asian medical systems, with many centuries of technological, clinical, and pharmacological innovation; it also survives today as a complex medical resource across many Asian nations - from India and Bhutan to Mongolia, Tibet (TAR) and China, Buryatia - as well as in Western Europe and the Americas. The contributions to this volume explore, in equal measure, the impacts of western science and biomedicine on Tibetan grounds - i.e., among Tibetans across China, the Himalaya and exile communities as well as in relation to globalized Tibetan medicine - and the ways that local practices change how such “science” gets done, and how this continually hybridized medical knowledge is transmitted and put into practice. As such, this volume contributes to explorations into the bi-directional flows of medical knowledge and practice.
Reproduction Childbearing And Motherhood
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Author : Pranee Liamputtong
language : en
Publisher: Nova Publishers
Release Date : 2007
Reproduction Childbearing And Motherhood written by Pranee Liamputtong and has been published by Nova Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Family & Relationships categories.
Although reproduction including infertility, abortion, childbearing and motherhood is a significant human experience, its social meaning is shaped by the culture in which birthing women live. Reproduction and its management, therefore, occur within the social and cultural context of the event. As such, reproductive beliefs and practices differ across social and cultural settings. This book focuses on reproduction, childbearing and motherhood. In this volume, the authors show that despite the modernisation of the society and advanced medical technology and knowledge in reproduction, traditions continue to exert influence on how the women and their families manage their reproduction, childbearing and motherhood in their societies.
