Healing Powers and Modernity: Traditional Medicine, Shamanism, and Science in Asian Societies; Shamanism: The Neural Ecology of Consciousness and Healing; Was ist ein Schamane?/What is a Shaman? Shamans, Healers, and Medicine Men from a Western Point of View
Medical Anthropology Quarterly June 1, 2002 DOI: 10.1525/maq.2002.16.2.254 (opens in new tab)
Study at a glance
AI-extracted from the abstract| Characteristics | Book review or abstract of multiple scholarly works Peer reviewed |
|---|---|
| Topics | Shamanism |
| Key findings | Traditional medicine and shamanism in Asian societies interact with modernity and science in complex ways, and shamanic practices can be understood through neural and ecological frameworks. |
Abstract
Healing Powers and Modernity: Traditional Medicine, Shamanism, and Science in Asian Societies. Linda H. Connor and Geoffrey Samuel. eds. Westport, CT: Bergin and Garvey, 2001. xiii. 283 pp.Shamanism: The Neural Ecology of Consciousness and Healing. Michael Winkelman. Westport, CT: Bergin and Garvey, 2000. 336 pp.Was ist ein Schamane?/What is. Shaman? Shamans, Healers, and Medicine Men from. Western Point of View. Amélie Schenk and Christian Rätsch. eds. Berlin: Society for Ethnomedicine, Curare/ Sonderband, 1999. 260 pp.