Illness and Healing among the Sakhalin Ainu
Emiko (Professor) Ohnuki-Tierney
Cambridge University Press, 2014
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Originally published in 1981, this book explores the issue of how a society understands human illness in the absence of a germ theory. This is done through an interpretation of the illness categories and healing practices of the Sakhalin Ainu, a hunting and gathering people resettled in Japan.
- ISBN-13
- 9781107634787
- ISBN-10
- 1107634784
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Year
- 2014
- Publication date
- 2014-05-08
- Pages
- 262
- Dimensions
- 229x152x14
- Weight
- 36