...Pierce Salguero Chinese Medicine and Healing: An Illustrated History . Edited by TJ Hinrichs and Linda L. Barnes . Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press , 2013 . x, 464 pp. $45.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2013  2013 This book...

... Medica , did not write off popular medical knowledge and practices such as the ritual treatment of demonic influence, and how new medical genres like case history books adopted narrative strategies from fiction to dramatize ailments and miraculous healing so that the cases became entertaining stories...

...Thomas B. Ellis Early Tantric Medicine: Snakebite, Mantras, and Healing in the Gāruḍa Tantras . By Michael Slouber . New York : Oxford University Press , 2017 . xi, 375 pp. ISBN: 9780190461812 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2019  2019 Michael...

...C. Pierce Salguero Healing with Poisons: Potent Medicines in Medieval China . By Yan Liu . Seattle : University of Washington Press , 2021 . 261 pp. ISBN: 9780295748993 . Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2022 2022 Chinese medicine is all about holistic therapies...

...Peter Claus Shamans, Mystics, and Doctors: A Psychoanalytic Inquiry into India and Its Healing Traditions . By Sudhir Kakar . New York : Alfred A. Knopf , 1982 . x, 306 pp. Note, Index. $15. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1984 1984 BOOK REVIEWS SOUTH ASIA 573...

...Richard A. O'Connor Trance and Healing in Southeast Asia Today . By Ruth-Inge Heinze . Bangkok : White Lotus Co. , 1988 . x, 406 pp. $35.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1989 1989 BOOK REVIEWS SOUTHEAST ASIA 435 labor force. The arrangement also allows...

... a growing British feebleness in the region. Three decades later the game was up" (p. 201). BEN-AMI SHILLONY The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Illness and Healing among the Sakhalin Ainu: A Symbolic Interpretation. By EMIKO OHNUKI-TIERNEY. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1981. xvi, 245 pp. Appendixes...

...Hartmut Scharfe Religious Healing in the Veda, with Translations and Annotations of Medical Hymns from the Ṛgveda and the Atharvaveda and Renderings from the Corresponding Ritual Texts . By Kenneth G. Zysk . Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, vol. 75 , part 7...

... book for the classroom as well as a significant contribution to the literature on healing, caste, gender, and the culture and religion of Garhwal. God of Justice: Ritual Healing and Social Justice in the Central Himalayas . By William S. Sax . Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2009 . xii...

...: Buddhist Healing, Chinese Knowledge, Islamic Formulas, and Wounds of War . By Andrew Edmund Goble . Honolulu : University of Hawai‘i Press , 2011 . xx, 202 pp. $52.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2012 2012 Andrew Goble sets out to answer a standard two-part...

...Mitchell G. Weiss South Asian Systems of Healing . Edited by E. Valentine Daniel and Judy F. Pugh . Leiden : E. J. Brill , 1984 . (Contributions to Asian Studies, Vol. 18) xii, 126 pp. 70,–Guilders (approx. $22). Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1987 1987 BOOK...

...H. L. Seneviratne 636 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES A Celebration of Demons: Exorcism and the Aesthetics of Healing in Sri Lanka. By BRUCE KAPFERER. Bloomington: University of Indiana Press, 1983. xvii, 293 pp. Illustrations, Notes, Bibliography, Glossary, Subject Index, Author Index. $32.50 (cloth...

...Anne Allison Healing Labor: Japanese Sex Work in the Gendered Economy . By Gabriele Koch . Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press , 2020 . 248 pp. ISBN: 9781503610576 (cloth; also available in paper and as e-book). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2022...

...Tracy Pilar Johnson Hmong American Concepts of Health, Healing, and Conventional Medicine . By Dia Cha . New York : Routledge , 2003 . xiii , 240 pp. $79.95 (cloth). Copyright © Association for Asian Studies 2005 2005 426 T H E J O U R N A L O F A S I A N S T U D I E S muralists...

...Sylvia Vatuk In Amma's Healing Room: Gender and Vernacular Islam in South India . By Joyce Burkhalter Flueckiger . Bloomington : Indiana University Press , 2006 . 320 pp. $65.00 (cloth); $24.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2007 2007...

...Carol Laderman Healing Sounds from the Malaysian Rainforest: Temiar Music and Medicine . By Marina Roseman . Berkeley : University of California Press , 1991 . xvii , 233 pp. $39.95. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1992 1992 716 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES...

...Cromwell Crawford Asceticism and Healing in Ancient India . By Kenneth G. Zysk . Oxford University Press , 1991 , 200 pages. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1993 1993 206 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES Asceticism and Healing in Ancient India. By KENNETH G. ZYSK...

... continued to dominate the scene. The Structure of Sinhalese Healing Rituals NUR YALMAN AS social anthropology has set up new standards for the analysis of social structure, the lag in the study of religious thought and behavior has become increasingly apparent. New departures have been rare in this region...

...Charlotte Eubanks Bringing Zen Home: The Healing Heart of Japanese Women's Rituals. By . Paula Kane Robinson Arai . Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press , 2011 . xii, 261 pp. $52.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2012 2012 As with Arai's first...

...William S. Sax Aghor Medicine: Pollution, Death, and Healing in Northern India . By Ron Barrett . Berkeley and Los Angeles : University of California Press , 2008 . xxii, 216 pp. $39.99 (cloth); $24.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2011 2011...