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Practitioners, Practices and Patients: New Approaches to Medical Archaeology and Anthropology
edited by Patricia Anne Baker and Gillian Carr
Medical archaeologists and anthropologists are both interested in the cultural constructions of disease, healing and medicine, but the interpretative methods used by the two groups are often quite different and interdisciplinary discussion is rare. The papers presented in this volume aim to bridge the disciplinary gap, to widen the field of interpretation, and to reconsider the cultural complexities of medical ideologies, beliefs and practices.
CONTENTS: Medical anthropology, material culture, and new directions in medical archaeology (E Hsu); Diagnosing some ills: The archaeology, literature and history of Roman medicine (P A Baker); Tuberculosis: A multidisciplinary approach to past and current concepts, causes and treatment of this infectious disease (C Roberts); A preliminary account of the doctorÆs grave at Stanway, Colchester, England (P Crummy); A time to live, a time to heal and a time to die: Healing and divination in later Iron Age and early Roman Britain (G Carr); A computer simulation of Mambila divination (D Zeitlyn); Beer, trees, pigs and chickens: Medical tools of the Lohorung shaman and priest (C Hardman); Healing here, there and in-between: A Tamu shamanÆs experience of international landscapes (J Pettigrew and Y Tamu); The Xaghra Shaman? (S Stoddart); Tobacco and curing agency in Western Amazonian shamanism (F Barbira Freedman); Magic, healing, or death? Issues of Seidr, æbalanceÆ, and morality in past and present (J Blain); Of crystal balls, political power, and changing contexts: What the clever women of Salerno inherited (C Knel); Lithic therapy in early Chinese body practices (V Lo); Kill or cure: Athenian judicial curses and the body in fear (R Anderson); Etruscan female tooth evulsion: Gold dental appliances as ornaments (M J Becker). 272p, 29 b/w illus, 11 tbs (Oxbow Books, August 2002)
Review Quotes
"This book will be of interest to medical anthropologists and palaeopathologists, and also to a broader range of specialists"
Sonia R Zakrzewski
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute
(2005)
"a stimulating volume"
Wolf-Rudiger Teegen
European Journal of Archaeology
(2005)
Table of Contents
Medical anthropology, material culture, and new directions in medical archaeology (Elisabeth Hsu)
Diagnosing some ills: the archaeology, literature and history of Roman medicine (Patricia A Baker)
Tuberculosis: a multidisciplinary approach to past and current concepts, causes and treatment of this infectious disease (Charlotte Roberts)
A preliminary account of the doctor's grave at Stanway, Colchester (Philip Crummy)
A time to live a time to heal and a time to die: healing and divination in later Iron Age and Early Roman Britain (Gillian Carr)
A Computer simulation of Mambila divination (David Zeitlyn)
Beer, trees, pigs and chickens: medical tools of the Lohorung shaman and priest (Charlotte Hardman)
Healing here, there and in-between: a Tamu shaman's experience of international landscapes (Judith Pettigrew and Yarjung Tamu)
The Xaghra Shaman? (Simon Stoddart)
Tobacco and curing agency in Western Amazonian shamanism (Françoise Barbira Freedman)
Magic, healing, or death? Issues of Seidr, `balance', and morality in past and present (Jenny Blain)
Of crystal balls, political power, and changing contexts: what the clever women of Salerno inherited (Christopher Knüsel)
Lithic therapy in early Chinese body practices (Vivienne Lo)
Kill or cure: Athenian judicial curses and the body in fear (Ralph Anderson)
Etruscan female tooth evulsion: gold dental appliances as ornaments (Marshall Becker)
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