ISBN:
9789004253902
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9004253904
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource (xii, 252 p.)
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ill., map.
Edition:
Online-Ausg. [S.l.] HathiTrust Digital Library Online-Ausg. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library
Series Statement:
Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde 241
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Courtens, Ien Restoring the balance
DDC:
306.09951
Keywords:
Catholic Church Missions
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Indonesia
;
Papua
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Catholic Church Missions
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Catholic Church Missions
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Indonesia
;
Papua
;
Catholic Church
;
Mejprat (New Guinean people) Medical care
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Mejprat (New Guinean people) Medical care
;
Religious aspects
;
Traditional medicine Indonesia
;
Papua
;
Medical care Indonesia
;
Papua
;
Healing Indonesia
;
Papua
;
Folklore Performance
;
Indonesia
;
Papua
;
Catholic hospitals Indonesia
;
Papua
;
Traditional medicine
;
Medical care
;
Healing
;
Folklore Performance
;
Catholic hospitals
;
Mejprat (New Guinean people) Medical care
;
Religious aspects
;
Mejprat (New Guinean people) Medical care
;
Medicine, Traditional
;
Indonesia
;
Christianity
;
Indonesia
;
Delivery of Health Care
;
Indonesia
;
Missions and Missionaries
;
Indonesia
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Religion and Medicine
;
Indonesia
;
Social Change
;
Indonesia
;
Papua (Provinz)
;
Medicine, Traditional
;
Christianity
;
Delivery of Health Care
;
Missions and Missionaries
;
Religion and Medicine
;
Social Change
;
Catholic hospitals Indonesia
;
Papua
;
Folklore Performance
;
Indonesia
;
Papua
;
Healing Indonesia
;
Papua
;
Medical care Indonesia
;
Papua
;
Mejprat (New Guinean people) Medical care
;
Mejprat (New Guinean people) Medical care
;
Religious aspects
;
Traditional medicine Indonesia
;
Papua
;
POLITICAL SCIENCE ; Public Policy ; Cultural Policy
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; Cultural
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Popular Culture
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Catholic hospitals
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Folklore ; Performance
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Healing
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Medical care
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Missions
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Traditional medicine
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Ethnomedizin
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Heiler
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Ärztliche Mission
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Indonesia ; Papua
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Provinz Papua
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
RESTORING THE BALANCE; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Chapter I Performing healing ; An introduction; Chapter II Mama Raja; The case; Chapter III Spirits of the living; Chapter IV Spirits of the underworld; Chapter V Performing indigenous healing; Chapter VI The missionary hospital; Chapter VII Mama Raja; The case continues; Chapter VIII Knowing God's mysteries; Chapter IX Walking together; Chapter X Performing healing; Conclusion; Epilogue; Appendix Healing plants; Glossary; Bibliography; Index
Abstract:
The study offers an ethnographically rich journey through the variety of healing methods in current Ayfat society: indigenous (obtained during female and male initiation rites), biomedical (the missionary hospital), and Christian (created by ritual healers since the coming of the missionaries). Likewise, the causes ascribed to illness range from sorcery, witchcraft, violation of ancestral or biblical rules, to biomedical conditions, a multiplicity of ways of understanding illness and healing that emerged in the context of religious change. Making choices among the variety of healing performanc
Note:
Rev. version of the author's doctoral thesis, Radboud University Nijmegen. - Includes bibliographical references (p. [237]-246) and index. - Description based on print version record
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [237]-246) and index
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Description based on print version record
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002
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Online-Ausg. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library
,
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
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