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| Author | : Ana Peters |
| Publisher | : Xlibris Corporation |
| Total Pages | : 246 |
| Release | : 2011-08-24 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1465357343 |
A dramatic story of brotherhood, magic, and spiritual growth. Two young men from Laos immigrate to Minnesota, U.S.A., during the Vietnam War. Enemies and rivals for the love of a village woman who stayed behind, each tries to resolve his confusion about living in a new culture and the loss of their beloved beauty, Zoua Lee. For Pao Moua, Zoua comes alive in his paintings of the village. On dark nights, from a mural lit by headlights, she speaks to Pao and helps him find a way to accept his new life. For Lue Vang, there is no such understanding. He turns to gang life, and must kill or be killed by his gang brothers. In trying to help Lue Vang, Pao nearly loses his life, but in the process he undergoes a life-changing experience that will lead him to become the shaman he always wanted to become. On the other hand, Lue Vang must leave the city to stay alive, but he leaves transformed after seeing a vision of Zoua Lee and saving Paos life. In the end, he realizes his own courage.
| Author | : Amy Campbell |
| Publisher | : Amy Campbell |
| Total Pages | : 411 |
| Release | : 2024-12-26 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1957816058 |
After a harrowing encounter with the vengeful Jade Empress, man-turned-dragon Elazar embarks on a perilous quest to find the elusive Forgotten Library, seeking to right ancient wrongs. With his loyal friends, Elazar discovers not only the hidden library but also the startling truth about his own heritage—and the terrifying reason the library was meant to remain lost to time.
| Author | : Anne Fadiman |
| Publisher | : Macmillan |
| Total Pages | : 370 |
| Release | : 2012-04-24 |
| Genre | : Family & Relationships |
| ISBN | : 0374533407 |
Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction, this brilliantly reported and beautifully crafted book explores the clash between a medical center in California and a Laotian refugee family over their care of a child.
| Author | : Michael Winkelman |
| Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
| Total Pages | : 812 |
| Release | : 2008-12-05 |
| Genre | : Medical |
| ISBN | : 0470462612 |
Culture and Health offers an overview of different areas of culture and health, building on foundations of medical anthropology and health behavior theory. It shows how to address the challenges of cross-cultural medicine through interdisciplinary cultural-ecological models and personal and institutional developmental approaches to cross-cultural adaptation and competency. The book addresses the perspectives of clinically applied anthropology, trans-cultural psychiatry and the medical ecology, critical medical anthropology and symbolic paradigms as frameworks for enhanced comprehension of health and the medical encounter. Includes cultural case studies, applied vignettes, and self-assessments.
| Author | : Boying Ma |
| Publisher | : World Scientific |
| Total Pages | : 1320 |
| Release | : 2020-02-20 |
| Genre | : Medical |
| ISBN | : 9813238003 |
This book set covers the last 3000 years of Chinese Medicine, as a broadly flowing river, from its source to its mouth. It takes the story from the very beginnings in proto-scientific China to the modern age, with a wealth of historical and cultural detail. It is unique in presenting many anecdotes, sayings, and excerpts from the traditional classics.The content is organized into four parts. Part one focuses on the medical activities in Chinese primitive society and the characteristic features of the witchcraft stage of medicine. Part two traces the progress of Chinese medicine as it entered the stage of natural philosophy. It also discusses how other aspects of philosophy, religion, and politics influenced Chinese medical theory and practice at the time. Chinese medicine, having a kind of social existence, was also impacted by the natural and social environment, and multiple cultural factors. Some of these factors are discussed in Part three. The last part concludes by examining the cultural process of Chinese medicine in history and offers a glimpse into the future of Chinese Medicine.
| Author | : Amy Olberding |
| Publisher | : State University of New York Press |
| Total Pages | : 331 |
| Release | : 2012-01-02 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 1438435649 |
Mortality in Traditional China is the definitive exploration of a complex and fascinating but little-understood subject. Arguably, death as a concept has not been nearly as central a preoccupation in Chinese culture as it has been in the West. However, even in a society that seems to understand death as a part of life, responses to mortality are revealing and indicate much about what is valued and what is feared. This edited volume fills the lacuna on this subject, presenting an array of philosophical, artistic, historical, and religious perspectives on death during a variety of historical periods. Contributors look at material culture, including findings now available from the Mawangdui tomb excavations; consider death in Confucian, Daoist, and Buddhist traditions; and discuss death and the history and philosophy of war.
| Author | : Robert R. Desjarlais |
| Publisher | : University of Pennsylvania Press |
| Total Pages | : 320 |
| Release | : 2011-09-16 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 0812206428 |
Body and Emotion is a study of the relationship between culture and emotional distress, an examination of the cultural forces that influence, make sense of, and heal severe pain and malaise. In order to investigate this relationship, Robert R. Desjarlais served as an apprentice healer among the Yolmo Sherpa, a Tibetan Buddhist people who reside in the Helambu region of north-central Nepal.
| Author | : John Alan Cohan |
| Publisher | : Bentham Science Publishers |
| Total Pages | : 336 |
| Release | : 2010-12-30 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1608050874 |
This book is in the field of trans-cultural psychology, and is intended for college courses in anthropology and psychology, and general readership. the book focuses on intriguing facts about primitive cultures around the world, and provides insights into living traditions and different world views. a principal theme of the book is that we can gain a better understanding of ourselves by a "detour" to other cultures. the book shows how modern ways of thinking are parallel to those of primitive cultures, and engages readers to become more aware of who they are. As shown throughout the book, there is not, after all, a very wide gulf between primitive and modern cultures. the book covers many topics including animism, shamanism, totemism, hunting and cultivation rituals, altered states of consciousness, envy and the evil eye, how people deal with conflicts, potlatches, cargo cults, how people satisfy the need for social approval, culture-bound syndromes, folk medicine, treatment of women, raising of children, nomadic peoples, treatment of the dead, and other topics.
| Author | : James Philip Mills |
| Publisher | : Asian Educational Services |
| Total Pages | : 348 |
| Release | : 1922 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
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| Author | : Kirsten W. Endres |
| Publisher | : Berghahn Books |
| Total Pages | : 244 |
| Release | : 2012-03-01 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 0857453599 |
In many parts of the contemporary world, spirit beliefs and practices have taken on a pivotal role in addressing the discontinuities and uncertainties of modern life. The myriad ways in which devotees engage the spirit world show the tremendous creative potential of these practices and their innate adaptability to changing times and circumstances. Through in-depth anthropological case studies from Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, Myanmar, Laos, and Vietnam, the contributors to this book investigate the role and impact of different social, political, and economic dynamics in the reconfiguration of local spirit worlds in modern Southeast Asia. Their findings contribute to the re-enchantment debate by revealing that the “spirited modernities” that have emerged in the process not only embody a distinct feature of the contemporary moment, but also invite a critical rethinking of the concept of modernity itself.
