{"product_id":"illness-and-healing-among-the-sakhalin-ainu-a-symbolic-interpretation-paperback-9781107634787","title":"Illness and Healing among the Sakhalin Ainu; A Symbolic Interpretation (Paperback \/ softback) 9781107634787","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eIllness and Healing among the Sakhalin Ainu\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eA Symbolic Interpretation\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eOriginally published in 1981, this book explores the issue of how a society understands human illness in the absence of a germ theory.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eEmiko Ohnuki-Tierney (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781107634787, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 8 May 2014\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e262 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.4 cm, 0.36 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eOriginally 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. The text illustrates how illnesses relate to the Ainu view of the universe and how their medical system is intimately interwoven with their moral cosmology and social networks. Even such minor ailments as headaches and boils are meticulously classified to mirror the classifications of such basic perceptual structures as space and time. With the Ainu medical system as an example, this book probes questions central to research in symbolic, medical and linguistic anthropology, structuralism, and the anthropology of women.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003e Ainu phonemes\u003cbr\u003e 1. Introduction: aims and scope of the book\u003cbr\u003e 2. The Ainu\u003cbr\u003e 3. The ethnomedical approach in anthropology and the Ainu domain of illness\u003cbr\u003e 4. Habitual illnesses\u003cbr\u003e 5. Classification of body-part and skin illnesses\u003cbr\u003e 6. Metaphysical illnesses and their healing rituals\u003cbr\u003e 7. A symbolic interpretation of metaphysical illnesses and healing rituals\u003cbr\u003e 8. Theories in symbolic studies and the Ainu data\u003cbr\u003e 9. Modes of perception and the classification of illnesses: a synthesis\u003cbr\u003e 10. Language and cognition: theoretical and methodological problems in arriving at perceptual categories\u003cbr\u003e 11. Illness, the individual, and society\u003cbr\u003e Appendix A. Details of Ainu habitual illnesses\u003cbr\u003e Appendix B. Beings and objects used in the cures of habitual illnesses\u003cbr\u003e Appendix C. Imu:\u003cbr\u003e Appendix D. Biological, cultural, and linguistic identity of the Ainu\u003cbr\u003e Appendix E. The history of the Sakhalin Ainu\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e References\u003cbr\u003e Index.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Anthropology [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Anthropology\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Anthropology%20%5BJHM%5D%22\"\u003eJHM\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46265814483224,"sku":"9781107634787","price":32.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9781107634787i.jpg?v=1696780914","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/illness-and-healing-among-the-sakhalin-ainu-a-symbolic-interpretation-paperback-9781107634787","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}