Topic
Ghost sickness
About: Ghost sickness is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 4 publications have been published within this topic receiving 89 citations.
Papers
1 Jan 1978
TL;DR: In this paper, an ethnographic account of the Tahitian concept of ma'i'sickness', and is based on field research in the Iles sous-levent.
Abstract: This paper is an ethnographic account of the Tahitian concept of ma'i 'sickness', and is based on field research in the Iles sous-le-vent. The first section outlines the four major categories of ma'i commonly distinguished by Tahitians - Injury, True sickness, Ghost sickness and Retribution sickness - and the principles which underlie these distinctions. This Is followed by a description of the diagnostic and curing practices commonly used in the rural areas ; the role of tahu'a and its place...
5 citations
TL;DR: In this article, a biocultural perspective is used to integrate organic and psychogenic explanations of Comanche ghost sickness, a peripheral facial paralysis, and emphasis is placed upon the underlying biological conditions that predispose the ghost sickness victim and the social utility of the culturally patterned disease expression.
Abstract: A biocultural perspective is used to integrate organic and psychogenic explanations of Comanche ghost sickness, a peripheral facial paralysis. Emphasis is placed upon the underlying biological conditions that predispose the ghost sickness victim and the social utility of the culturally patterned disease expression. An idealized disease cosmology traces the biobehavioral route to ghost sickness symptoms.
3 citations
1 Jan 1983
TL;DR: Henderson et al. the authors described Comanche Ghost Sickness: A Biocultural Perspective, Medical Anthropology, 1981, Sevring. r. de: HENDERSON (J. N.), ADOUR (K.C. K), the authors
Abstract: C. r. de: HENDERSON (J. N.), ADOUR (K. K.), Comanche Ghost Sickness: A Biocultural Perspective, Medical Anthropology, 1981, Sevring.
1 citations
TL;DR: After a historical review, the current methods of preparing and administering herbal medicines are discussed, followed by a discussion of what is commonly called "ghost sickness" in the islands.
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| Year | Papers |
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| 1985 | 1 |
| 1983 | 1 |
| 1981 | 1 |
| 1978 | 1 |