Description - The Performance of Healing by Carol Laderman
The Performance of Healing covers a wide range of the medical, holistic and religious aspects of healing and of death. The contributors broaden the field of medical anthropology by demonstrating that healing involves the senses in treatment whose efficacy depends in part on dramatic performances. Curing is not just about 'making people well' - it also forms a crucial means of reproducing relations of power. A performance directed toward a particular individual might also heal a traumatized social group, expanding the definition of 'cure' from its narrower sense of restoring a victim to health to the larger goal of repairing social relations.
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