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  • 1
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    New York, NY : [s.n.]
    ISBN: 9781782385653
    Language: Undetermined
    Pages: 304 p.
    Edition: 1st edition
    Series Statement: Epistemologies of Healing 16
    Keywords: Medical Anthropology
    Abstract: Belianis an exceptionally lively tradition of shamanistic curing rituals performed by the Luangans, a politically marginalized population of Indonesian Borneo. This volume explores the significance of these rituals in practice and asks what belian rituals do – socially, politically, and existentially – for particular people in particular circumstances. Departing from the conception that rituals exist as ethereal, liminal or insulated traditional domains, this volume demonstrates the importance of understanding rituals as emergent within their specific historical and social settings. It offers an analysis of a number of concrete ritual performances, exemplifying a diversity of ritual genres, stylistic modalities and sensual ambiences, from low-key, habitual affairs to drawn-out, crowd-seizing community rituals and innovative, montage-like cultural experiments.
    Description / Table of Contents: List of Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Luangan Lives: The Order and Disorder of Improvisation and Practice -- Chapter 2. Representing Unpredictability -- Chapter 3. Making Tactile: Ganti Diri Figures and the Magic of Concreteness -- Chapter 4. The Uncertainty of Spirit Negotiation -- Chapter 5. So that Steam Rises: Ritual Bathing as Depersonalization -- Chapter 6. It Comes Down to One Origin: Reenacting Mythology and the Human-Spirit Relationship in Ritual -- Conclusion -- Glossary -- References -- Index --
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  • 2
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    New York, NY : [s.n.]
    ISBN: 9781782386353
    Language: Undetermined
    Pages: 214 p.
    Edition: 1st edition
    Series Statement: Fertility, Reproduction and Sexuality: Social and Cultural Perspectives 29
    Keywords: Medical Anthropology
    Abstract: Managing social relationships for childless couples in pro-natalist societies can be a difficult art to master, and may even become an issue of belonging for both men and women. With ethnographic research gathered from two IVF clinics and in two villages in northwestern Turkey, this book explores infertility and assisted reproductive technologies within a secular Muslim population. Göknar investigates the experience of infertility through various perspectives, such as the importance of having a child for women, the mediating role of religion, the power dynamics in same-gender relationships, and the impact of manhood ideologies on the decision for - or against - having IVF.
    Description / Table of Contents: Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. The Desire to Have a Child -- Chapter 2. Religion as Discourse and Practice -- Chapter 3. Childlessness among Kin and Friends -- Chapter 4. Manhood Ideologies and IVF -- Chapter 5. Achievement and Procreation -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index --
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  • 3
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    New York, NY : [s.n.]
    ISBN: 9781782386902
    Language: Undetermined
    Pages: 232 p.
    Edition: 1st edition
    Keywords: Medical Anthropology
    Abstract: Modern medicine has penetrated Bedouin tribes in the course of rapid urbanization and education, but when serious illnesses strike, particularly in the case of incurable diseases, even educated people turn to traditional medicine for a remedy. Over the course of 30 years, the author gathered data on traditional Bedouin medicine among pastoral-nomadic, semi-nomadic, and settled tribes. Based on interviews with healers, clients, and other active participants in treatments, this book will contribute to renewed thinking about a synthesis between traditional and modern medicine - to their reciprocal enrichment.
    Description / Table of Contents: List of Illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Health and Health Services among the Bedouin in the Middle East -- Chapter 2. The Treatment of Human Ailments - Part A -- Chapter 3. The Treatment of Human Ailments - Part B -- Chapter 4. "Don't Touch My Body": The Qarina and Bedouin Women's Fertility -- Bibliography -- Index --
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  • 4
    ISBN: 9781782384939
    Language: Undetermined
    Pages: 248 p.
    Edition: 1st edition
    Series Statement: Fertility, Reproduction and Sexuality: Social and Cultural Perspectives 28
    Keywords: Medical Anthropology
    Abstract: Juxtaposing contributions from geneticists and anthropologists, this volume provides a contemporary overview of cousin marriage and what is happening at the interface of public policy, the management of genetic risk and changing cultural practices in the Middle East and in multi-ethnic Europe. It offers a cross-cultural exploration of practices of cousin marriage in the light of new genetic understanding of consanguineous marriage and its possible health risks. Overall, the volume presents a reflective, interdisciplinary analysis of the social and ethical issues raised by both the discourse of risk in cousin marriage, as well as existing and potential interventions to promote "healthy consanguinity" via new genetic technologies.  
    Description / Table of Contents: List of Figures and Tables -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Alison Shaw and Aviad Raz -- Chapter 1. The Prevalence and Outcomes of Consanguineous Marriage in Contemporary Societies -- Alan H. Bittles -- Chapter 2. Risk Calculations in Consanguinity -- Leo P. ten Kate, Marieke E. Teeuw, Lidewij Henneman and Martina C. Cornel -- PART I: CONTINUITY AND CHANGE IN TRADITIONAL CONSANGUINEOUS MARRIAGE -- Chapter 3. Cousin Marriages and Inherited Blood Disorders in the Sultanate of Oman -- Claire Beaudevin -- Chapter 4. 'Dangerous Liaisons': Modern Bio-medical Discourses and Changing Practices of Cousin Marriage in Southeastern Turkey -- Laila Prager -- PART II: COUSIN MARRIAGES WITHIN MIGRANT POPULATIONS IN EUROPE -- Chapter 5. British Pakistani Cousin Marriages and the Negotiation of Reproductive Risk -- Alison Shaw -- Chapter 6. A Cousin Marriage Equals a Forced Marriage: Transnational Marriages between Closely Related Spouses in Denmark -- Anika Liversage and Mikkel Rytter -- Chapter 7. Changing Patterns Of Partner Choice? Cousin Marriages Among Migrant Groups In The Netherlands -- Oka Storms and Edien Bartels -- PART III: CONSANGUINITY AND MANAGING GENETIC RISK -- Chapter 8. Using Community Genetics for Healthy Consanguinity -- Joël Zlotogora -- Chapter 9. Premarital Carrier Testing and Matching in Jewish Communities -- Aviad Raz -- Chapter 10. Preconception Care For Consanguineous Couples in the Netherlands -- Marieke E. Teeuw, Pascal Borry and Leo P. ten Kate -- Afterword: The Marriages of Cousins in Victorian England -- Adam Kuper -- Index --
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  • 5
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    New York, NY : [s.n.]
    ISBN: 9781782384564
    Language: Undetermined
    Pages: 252 p.
    Edition: 1st edition
    Series Statement: Food, Nutrition, and Culture 4
    Keywords: Medical Anthropology
    Abstract: The recovered possess the key to overcoming anorexia. Although individual sufferers do not know how the affliction takes hold, piecing their stories together reveals two accidental afflictions. One is that activity disorders-dieting, exercising, healthy eating-start as virtuous practices, but become addictive obsessions. The other affliction is a developmental disorder, which also starts with the virtuous-those eager for challenge and change. But these overachievers who seek self-improvement get a distorted life instead. Knowing anorexia from inside, the recovered offer two watchwords on helping those who suffer. One is "negotiate," to encourage compromise, which can aid recovery where coercion fails. The other is "balance," for the ill to pursue mind-with-body activities to defuse mind-over-body battles.
    Description / Table of Contents: Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Negotiating Anorexia -- PART I: THE DISEASE: AN ACTIVITY DISORDER -- Chapter 1. The Person: Working with Interviews -- Chapter 2. Medicine: Reworking Cartesian Knowledge -- Chapter 3. The Stories: Respecting Diversity -- Chapter 4. Bioculturalism: Seeing Holistically and Historically -- Chapter 5. Bodily Bent: The Individual's Constitution -- Chapter 6. The Activity: How Ascetic Doing Takes Over -- Chapter 7. The Core: Elementary Anorexia -- PART II: THE LIFECYCLE: A DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDER -- Chapter 8. Youth: How Adolescence Invites Anorexia -- Chapter 9. Coming of Age: Meeting an Imagined Real World -- PART III: MODERN TRADITIONS: CULTURAL PATHS INTO ANOREXIA -- Chapter 10. Virtuous Eating: A Modern Morality -- Chapter 11. The Conflicted Body: Sympathy and Control as Competing Virtues -- Chapter 12. The Attractive Person: A Modern Appearance Ethic -- PART IV: RECOVERY: FINDING BALANCE -- Chapter 13. Getting Out: Undoing Anorexia -- Chapter 14. Staying Out: Redoing Life -- Epilogue -- References --
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    New York, NY : [s.n.]
    ISBN: 9781782385554
    Language: Undetermined
    Pages: 302 p.
    Edition: 1st edition
    Series Statement: Epistemologies of Healing 15
    Keywords: Medical Anthropology
    Abstract: Umhlonyane, also known as Artemisia afra, is one of the oldest and best-documented indigenous medicines in South Africa. This bush, which grows wild throughout the sub-Saharan region, smells and tastes like "medicine," thus easily making its way into people's lives and becoming the choice of everyday healing for Xhosa healer-diviners and Rastafarian herbalists. This "natural" remedy has recently sparked curiosity as scientists search for new molecules against a tuberculosis pandemic while hoping to recognize indigenous medicine. Laplante follows umhlonyane on its trails and trials of becoming a biopharmaceutical - from the "open air" to controlled environments - learning from the plant and from the people who use it with hopes in healing.  
    Description / Table of Contents: Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: Tracing the Preclinical Trial of an Indigenous Plant -- Chapter 1. Knowing Umhlonyane/Artemisia afra -- Chapter 2. Engaging in Medicine -- Chapter 3. Tracing Medicine – Wayfaring -- Chapter 4. Imagining Indigeneity -- Chapter 5. Healing the Nation -- Chapter 6. Dreams, Ancestors and Sound Healing -- Chapter 7. Weaving Molecules in Life -- Conclusion: Imagining the Clinical Trial -- References --
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    New York, NY : [s.n.]
    ISBN: 9781782387336
    Language: Undetermined
    Pages: 276 p.
    Edition: 1st edition
    Series Statement: Fertility, Reproduction and Sexuality: Social and Cultural Perspectives 30
    Keywords: Medical Anthropology
    Abstract: In Thailand, infertility remains a source of stigma for those couples that combine a range of religious, traditional and high-tech interventions in their quest for a child. This book explores this experience of infertility and the pursuit and use of assisted reproductive technologies by Thai couples. Though using assisted reproductive technologies is becoming more acceptable in Thai society, access to and choices about such technologies are mediated by differences in class position. These stories of women and men in private and public infertility clinics reveal how local social and moral sensitivities influence the practices and meanings of treatment.
    Description / Table of Contents: Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Notes on Language and Transliteration -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: Culture Mediums -- Chapter 1. The Birth of IVF in Thailand -- Chapter 2. Incompleteness -- Chapter 3. Begging for Babies -- Chapter 4. Engaging Technologies -- Chapter 5. The Clinical Ensemble -- Chapter 6. Patriarchal Bargains -- Chapter 7. 'Love Clinic': Cyber-sociality -- Chapter 8. 'Technology that gives men hope' -- Chapter 9. Carrying the Merit -- Conclusion -- Appendix -- Glossary -- References -- Index --
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    ISBN: 9781782388081
    Language: Undetermined
    Pages: 284 p.
    Edition: 1st edition
    Series Statement: Fertility, Reproduction and Sexuality: Social and Cultural Perspectives 31
    Keywords: Medical Anthropology
    Abstract: Following the birth of the first "test-tube baby" in 1978, Assisted Reproductive Technologies became available to a small number of people in high-income countries able to afford the cost of private treatment, a period seen as the "First Phase" of ARTs. In the "Second Phase," these treatments became increasingly available to cosmopolitan global elites. Today, this picture is changing - albeit slowly and unevenly - as ARTs are becoming more widely available. While, for many, accessing infertility treatments remains a dream, these are beginning to be viewed as a standard part of reproductive healthcare and family planning. This volume highlights this "Third Phase" - the opening up of ARTs to new constituencies in terms of ethnicity, geography, education, and class.
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction: Assisted Reproductive Technologies: A Third Phase? -- Bob Simpson and Kate Hampshire -- Section One: (Islamic) ART Journeys and Moral Pioneers -- Introduction: New Reproductive Technologies in Islamic Local Moral Worlds -- Marcia C. Inhorn -- Chapter 1. 'Islamic Bioethics' in Transnational Perspective -- Morgan Clarke -- Chapter 2. Moral Pioneers: Pakistani Muslims and the Take-up of Assisted Reproductive Technologies in the North of England -- Bob Simpson, Mwenza Blell and Kate Hampshire -- Chapter 3. Whither Kinship? Assisted Reproductive Technologies and Relatedness in the Islamic Republic of Iran -- Soraya Tremayne -- Chapter 4. Practitioner Perspective: Practising ARTs in Islamic Contexts -- Farouk Mahmoud -- Section Two: ARTs and the Low-Income Threshold. -- Introduction: ARTs in Resource-Poor Areas: Practices, Experiences, Challenges and Theoretical Debates -- Trudie Gerrits -- Chapter 5. Global Access to Reproductive Technologies and Infertility Care in Developing Countries -- Willem Ombelet -- Chapter 6. Childlessness in Bangladesh: Women's Experiences of Access to Biomedical Infertility Services -- Papreen Nahar -- Chapter 7. Ethics, Identities and Agency: ART, Elites and HIV/AIDS in Botswana -- Astrid Bochow -- Chapter 8. A Child Cannot Be Bought? Economies of Hope and Failure When Doing ARTs in Mali -- Viola Hörbst -- Chapter 9. Practitioner Perspective: A View from Sri Lanka -- Thilina S. Palihawadana and H.R. Seneviratne -- Section Three: ARTs and Professional Practice -- Introduction: Ethnic Communities, Professions and Practices -- Alison Shaw -- Chapter 10. Reproductive Technologies and Ethnic Minorities: Beyond a Marginalising Discourse on the Marginalised Communities -- Sangeeta Chattoo -- Chapter 11. Knock Knock, 'You're my mummy': Anonymity, Identification and Gamete Donation in British South Asian Communities -- Nicky Hudson and Lorraine Culley -- Chapter 12. Practitioner Perspective: Cultural Competence from Theory to Clinical Practice -- Ana Liddie Navarro and Miriam Orcutt -- Notes on Contributors -- Bibliography -- Index --
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  • 9
    ISBN: 9783824446179 , 9783322813732 (Sekundärausgabe)
    Language: German
    Pages: 334 p.
    Edition: 1
    Edition: Online-Ausg. Online-Ressource ISBN 9783322813732
    Edition: [Online-Ausg.]
    DDC: 300
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    Keywords: Der Spiegel ; Stern ; Focus ; Geschichte 1997-2001 ; Publikumszeitschrift ; Politik ; Titelseite ; Erfolgsfaktor ; Deutschland ; Online-Publikation
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  • 10
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    Wiesbaden : VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften
    ISBN: 9783531146768 , 9783322807649 (Sekundärausgabe)
    Language: German
    Pages: 239 p.
    Edition: 1
    Edition: Online-Ausg. Online-Ressource ISBN 9783322807649
    Edition: [Online-Ausg.]
    DDC: 300
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    Keywords: Sozialstruktur ; Sozialverhalten ; Politik ; Soziokultureller Wandel ; USA ; Deutschland ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Online-Publikation
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    ISBN: 9780765680785 , 9781317471646 , 9781317471653 (Sekundärausgabe)
    Language: English
    Pages: XX, 592, I-52
    Edition: Online-Ausg. Ann Arbor, Michigan Proquest Online Ressource ISBN 9781317471653
    Edition: [Online-Ausg.]
    DDC: 973.91503
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1918-1930 ; Jazz ; Kultur ; Politik ; Enzyklopädie ; Online-Publikation
    Note: Gedruckte Ausg. in 2 Bänden erschienen. , Literaturverz. S. 579 - 592 , Online-Ausg.:
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