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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

Beth A. Conklin

Medical Anthropology Quarterly June 1, 2002 DOI: 10.1525/maq.2002.16.2.254 (opens in new tab)

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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.