TY  - BOOK
AU  - Parsons,Claire D.F.
TI  - Healing practices in the South Pacific
SN  - 0939154412
PY  - 1985///]
CY  - [Laie, Hawaii]
PB  - Institute for Polynesian Studies
KW  - Polynesians
KW  - Medicine
KW  - Traditional medicine
KW  - Oceania
KW  - Healing
KW  - Social medicine
N1  - 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
ER  -