Marunnum Mantravum - an ethnographic enquiry into the patterns of affliction and therapeutics in a traditional healing practice in Malabar, north Kerala
CrossAsia-Repository 2010 Bhaskaran Nair
The relevance of traditional healing systems in understanding, expressing, finding a meaning and treating human suffering and misfortune has been one of the focuses in medical anthropology. Among the three main sectors of health care delivery in all complex societies, namely the popular, the folk and the professional, the folk healing represents the intermediate position consisting of sacred or...