Description |
1 online resource |
Series |
Contemporary ethnography |
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Contemporary ethnography.
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Contents |
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Contents -- Chapter 1. Medicine and the Will to Civilization -- Chapter 2. Healing Difference at the Limits of Community -- Chapter 3. Hagiographies of the Living: Saintly Speech and Other Wonders of Secular Life -- Chapter 4. The Therapeutics of Piety: Ethics, Markets, Value -- Chapter 5. A Malaise of Fracturing Dreams: The Care of Relations -- Chapter 6. Healing Secular Life: Two Regimes of Loss -- Conclusion: Fragments -- Appendix: Genres of Healing -- Notes -- Glossary -- References -- Index -- Acknowledgments |
Summary |
Anthropologist Christopher Dole investigates the controversial position of religious healing in modern Turkey, demonstrating that the authority of the religious healer is deeply embedded within Turkey's history of secular reform, and that religious healing and secularism share a set of common stakes |
Analysis |
Anthropology |
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Folklore |
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Linguistics |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
Notes |
In English |
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Print version record |
Subject |
Spiritual healing -- Political aspects -- Turkey
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Healers -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Turkey
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Secularism -- Turkey
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- General.
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Healers -- Legal status, laws, etc.
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Secularism
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Turkey
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Genre/Form |
Ethnography
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Form |
Electronic book
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LC no. |
2012008451 |
ISBN |
9780812206357 |
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0812206355 |
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