Healers and Empires in Global History

Healing as Hybrid and Contested Knowledge

Inbunden, Engelska, 2019

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This book explores cross-cultural medical encounters involving non-Western healers in a variety of imperial contexts from the Arctic, Asia, Africa, Americas and the Caribbean. They also reveal the agency of healers, sufferers and local societies, in encounters with modernising imperial states, medical science and commercialisation.

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Utgivningsdatum2019-05-02
Mått148 x 210 x 29 mm
Vikt588 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieCambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies
Antal sidor279
FörlagSpringer Nature Switzerland AG
ISBN9783030154905

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Markku Hokkanen is Senior Lecturer in the Department of History, University of Oulu, Finland. His previous publications include the monograph Medicine, Mobility and the Empire: Nyasaland Networks, 1859-1960 (2017) and the co-edited collection Encountering Crises of the Mind: Madness, Culture and Society, 1200s-1900s (2018). Kalle Kananoja is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Helsinki, Finland. He has published articles on precolonial Atlantic African and colonial Brazilian history.

1. Introduction - Markku Hokkanen and Kalle Kananoja.- 2. Traditional Arctic Healing and Medicines of Modernisation in Finnish and Swedish Lapland - Ritva Kylli.- 3. Reports on Encounters of Medical Cultures: Two Physicians in Sweden’s Medical and Colonial Connections in the Late Eighteenth Century - Saara-Maija Kontturi.- 4. Tibetan Medicine and Buddhism in the Soviet Union: Research, Repression, and Revival, 1922–1991 - Ivan Sablin.- 5. Contestation, Redefinition and Healers’ Tactics in Colonial Southern Africa - Markku Hokkanen.- 6. Complicating Hybrid Medical Practices in the Tropics: Examining the Case of São Tomé and Príncipe, 1850-1926 - Rafaela Jobbitt.- 7. Doctors, Healers and Charlatans in Brazil: A Short History of Ideas, c. 1650–1950 - Kalle Kananoja.- 8. Risking Obeah: A Spiritual Infrastructure in the Danish West Indies, c. 1800–1848 - Gunvor Simonsen.- 9. Toward a Typology of Nineteenth-Century Lakota Magico-Medico-Ritual Specialists - David C. Posthumus.