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...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...

...Tenzin Namdul Healing at the Periphery: Ethnographies of Tibetan Medicine in India . Edited by Laurent Pordié and Stephan Kloos . Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2022 . viii, 224 pp. ISBN: 9781478014454 . © 2023 Association for Asian Studies 2023 In Tibetan medicine...

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

...William R. Lebra Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1983 1983 Illness and Healing among the Sakhalin Ainu: A Symbolic Interpretation . By Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 1981 . xvi, 245 pp. Appendixes, Notes, References, Index. $34.50...

...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...

... of householder disciples (p. 97) …no one would deny that his power was great and his reforms far-reaching” (p. 100). Barrett's account of a particular healing sequence as a rite of “symbolic self-cremation” (p. 77) is plausible, but implausibly he tries to extend this idea to the “social deaths experienced...

...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...

...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...

...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...

... York : Viking , 2018 ) . 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...

... 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...

... 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...

...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...

... Sax with a vantage point from which to address the thorny issue of the “reality” of possessing spirits. Sax cites many examples of recent anthropological treatments of distributed agency before offering his own: because the entire healing system would collapse without its nonhuman agents...

...: 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 Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1987 1987 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). BOOK...

...H. L. Seneviratne 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); $18.50 (paper...

...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...

...Pierce Salguero In their attention to a wide spectrum of healing practices, their questioning of categories and master narratives, and their richly contextualized approach to their material, the contributors to this project engage fruitfully with many current trends in the history of medicine...