Restoring the balance : performing healing in West Papua

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Label

Restoring the balance : performing healing in West Papua

Title remainder

performing healing in West Papua

Statement of responsibility

Ien Courtens

Creator

• Courtens, Ien

Subject

• Catholic Church -- Missions -- Indonesia | Papua
• Catholic hospitals
• Catholic hospitals -- Indonesia | Papua
• Christianity -- Indonesia
• Delivery of Health Care -- Indonesia
• Electronic books
• Ethnomedizin
• Folklore -- Performance
• Folklore -- Performance -- Indonesia | Papua
• Healing
• Healing -- Indonesia | Papua
• Heiler
• Indonesia -- Papua
• Medical care
• Medical care -- Indonesia | Papua
• Medicine, Traditional -- Indonesia
• Mejprat (New Guinean people) -- Medical care
• Mejprat (New Guinean people) -- Medical care | Religious aspects
• Missions
• Missions and Missionaries -- Indonesia
• POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy | Cultural Policy
• Provinz Papua
• Religion and Medicine -- Indonesia
• SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology | Cultural
• SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture
• Social Change -- Indonesia
• Traditional medicine
• Traditional medicine -- Indonesia | Papua
• Ärztliche Mission
• Catholic Church

Genre

• Electronic books

Language

eng

Summary

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

Member of

• Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde, 241

Action

digitized

Cataloging source

N$T

Dewey number

306.09951

Illustrations

• illustrations
• maps

Index

index present

Language note

English

LC call number

DU744.35.M42

LC item number

C687 2008eb

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• dictionaries
• bibliography

NLM call number

• 2009 D-212
• WB 55

NLM item number

C858r 2008

Series statement

Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde

Series volume

241