Medical Anthropology

Brief Contents
• Criteria for Selecting Herbal Remedies.
• Dawa: Beyond Science and Superstition (Tanzania).
• Language of Illness in South Kanara (India).
• Magic as a “Quasi-Profession”: The Organization of Magic and Magical Healing Among Amhara.
• The Maya Bonesetter as Sacred Specialist.
• Role of the Marrnggitj in Contemporary Health Care.
• Shamanistic Symptoms or Symbols ? A case of Indetermination (The body of the Guajiro shaman).
• Smallpox in Person: Personification or Personalization (Africa)?
• Therapeutic Techniques of Huichole Curanderos with a Case Report of Cross Cultural Psychotherapy (Mexico).
• Universal Aspects of Symbolic Healing: A Theoretical Synthesis.
• World Distribution of Theories of Illness.

CONTRIBUTORS
C. Browner • M. Singleton • Mark Nichter • Allan Young • Benjamin D. Paul • Janice Reid • Michel Perrin • M. Singleton • Thomas H. Lewis • James Dow • George P. Murdock • Suzanne F. Wilson • Violetta Frederick