Healing practices in the South Pacific / edited by Claire D.F. Parsons.
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TextPublisher: [Laie, Hawaii] : Institute for Polynesian Studies ; [1985]Distributor: Honolulu, Hawaii : University of Hawaii Press [distributor], [1985]Copyright date: ©1985Description: xii, 250 pages : maps ; 24 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0939154412
- 9780939154418
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TNU, Faculty of Education, Arts and Humanities Pasifika Collection | PAC 615.882099 HEA (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Not for loan | FEAH25052207 |
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Maps on lining papers.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-244) and index.
Samoan medicine / Cluny Macpherson -- Illness and healing in Nanumea, Tuvalu / Anne Chambers and Keith S. Chambers -- Healing in central Espiritu Santo, Vanuatu / Tomas Ludvigson -- Contemporary healing practices in Tikopia, Solomon Islands / Judith Macdonald -- Tongan healing practices / Claire D.F. Parsons -- Contemporary healing practices in East Futuna / Bruce Biggs -- Traditional healing practices of Rarotonga, Cook Islands / Josephine Baddeley -- Physical and social boundaries in Pukapukan theories of disease / Julia A. Hecht -- Tahitian healing / Antony Hooper -- Midwives and midwifery in Western Samoa / Patricia J. Kinloch -- Notes on Maori sickness knowledge and healing practices / Claire D.F. Parsons.