Unique local transformations of the practice of established religions in Asia and the Pacific are juxtaposed with the emergence of new religious movements whose incidence is growing across the region. In Flows of Faith, the contributing authors take as their starting point questions of how religions manifest outside their cultural boundaries and provide the basis for new social identities, political movements and social transformations. With fresh insights into the globalization of beliefs, their local inflections, and their institutionalization, the authors explore how old and new religions...
Unique local transformations of the practice of established religions in Asia and the Pacific are juxtaposed with the emergence of new religious movem...
This volume brings together two parallel fields of interest. One is the understanding among psychologists and other social scientists of the limits to psychometric measurement, and the challenges in generating information about quality of life and wellbeing that enable comparison across time and place, at both individual and population levels. The second is the interest among anthropologists and others in the lived experience of chronic illness and disability, including the unpredictable fluctuations in perceived health and capability. Chronic conditions and physical impairments are assumed...
This volume brings together two parallel fields of interest. One is the understanding among psychologists and other social scientists of the limits to...
Lenore Manderson Elizabeth Cartwright Anita Hardon
"The" "Routledge Handbook of Medical Anthropology" provides a contemporary overview of the key themes in medical anthropology. In this exciting departure from conventional handbooks, compendia and encyclopedias, the three editors have written the core chapters of the volume, and in so doing, invite the reader to reflect on the ethnographic richness and theoretical contributions of research on the clinic and the field, bioscience and medical research, infectious and communicable disease, biomedicine, complementary and alternative modalities, structural violence and vulnerability, gender and...
"The" "Routledge Handbook of Medical Anthropology" provides a contemporary overview of the key themes in medical anthropology. In this exciting dep...
