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Spirits Captured in Stone: Shamanism and Traditional Medicine among the Taman of Borneo » (1st Edition)
Authors: Jay H. Bernstein
ISBN-13: 9781555876920, ISBN-10: 1555876927
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Lynne Rienner Publishers, Inc.
Date Published: January 1997
Edition: 1st Edition
Author Biography: Jay H. Bernstein
Book Synopsis
Table of Contents
| Preface | ||
| Note on Transcription | ||
| 1 | Introduction | 1 |
| 2 | The Taman People, Their Customs, and Their Social Structure | 13 |
| 3 | Therapeutics, Pharmacopoeia, and Medical Pluralism | 31 |
| 4 | Explanations of Illness and Their Conceptual Framework | 53 |
| 5 | Becoming a Balien | 77 |
| 6 | The Work and Equipment of the Balien | 109 |
| 7 | Balienism in Society | 141 |
| 8 | Conclusion | 163 |
| App. A: Glossary | 173 | |
| App. B | Key to Plants Used in Medicine and Ritual | 179 |
| App. C | Field Methods | 183 |
| App. D | Note on the Value of the Rupiah | 187 |
| App. E | Musical Description of the Balien Chant | 189 |
| Bibliography | 191 | |
| Index | 201 | |
| About the Book | 209 |
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