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Taming the wind of desire
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ISBN: 0520913701 0585070423 9780520913707 9780585070421 0520069161 Year: 1991 Publisher: Berkeley University of California Press

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Charged with restoring harmony and relieving pain, the Malay shaman places his patients in trance and encourages them to express their talents, drives, personality traits - the 'Inner Winds' of Malay medical lore - in a kind of performance. The book explores Malay shamanism.

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Malays (Asian people) --- Shamanism --- Traditional medicine --- Anthropology, Cultural --- Medicine, Traditional --- Religion and Medicine --- Religion and Psychology --- Religion --- Complementary Therapies --- Psychological Phenomena and Processes --- Culture --- Anthropology --- Therapeutics --- Social Sciences --- Humanities --- Psychiatry and Psychology --- Anthropology, Education, Sociology and Social Phenomena --- Analytical, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Techniques and Equipment --- East Asia --- Regions & Countries - Asia & the Middle East --- History & Archaeology --- Science, Social --- Sciences, Social --- Social Science --- Therapy --- Treatment --- Therapeutic --- Therapies --- Treatments --- Disease --- Beliefs --- Cultural Background --- Cultural Relativism --- Customs --- Background, Cultural --- Backgrounds, Cultural --- Belief --- Cultural Backgrounds --- Cultural Relativisms --- Cultures --- Relativism, Cultural --- Relativisms, Cultural --- Psychologic Processes --- Psychologic Processes and Principles --- Psychological Processes --- Phenomena, Psychological --- Processes, Psychologic --- Processes, Psychological --- Psychological Phenomenas --- Psychological Processe --- Alternative Therapies --- Therapy, Alternative --- Therapy, Complementary --- Alternative Medicine --- Complementary Medicine --- Medicine, Alternative --- Medicine, Complementary --- Therapies, Alternative --- Therapies, Complementary --- Prayer --- Religious Beliefs --- Religious Ethics --- Beliefs, Religious --- Ethic, Religious --- Prayers --- Religions --- Religious Belief --- Spiritual Therapies --- Secularism --- Indigenous Medicine --- Primitive Medicine --- Traditional Medicine --- Ethnomedicine --- Folk Medicine --- Folk Remedies --- Home Remedies --- Medicine, Folk --- Medicine, Indigenous --- Medicine, Primitive --- Folk Remedy --- Home Remedy --- Remedies, Folk --- Remedies, Home --- Remedy, Folk --- Remedy, Home --- Traditional Pulse Diagnosis --- Materia Medica --- Nostrums --- Pharmacognosy --- Plants, Medicinal --- Ethnopharmacology --- Cultural Anthropology --- Material Culture --- Ethnography --- Culture, Material --- Ethnographies --- Material Cultures --- Qualitative Research --- Malay race --- Melayu (Asian people) --- Orang Melayu (Asian people) --- Ethnology --- Psychology and Religion --- Psychology, Religion --- Religion, Psychology --- Medicine and Religion --- Parish Nursing --- Ethnic medicine --- Folk medicine --- Home cures --- Home medicine --- Home remedies --- Indigenous medicine --- Medical folklore --- Primitive medicine --- Surgery, Primitive --- Alternative medicine --- Folklore --- Medical anthropology --- Medicine. --- Religion. --- Medicine --- therapy --- psychology --- Kampong Merchang (Terengganu) --- Kampong Merchang (Terengganu, Malaysia) --- Kampung Merchang (Malaysia) --- Merchang (Terengganu, Malaysia) --- Social life and customs. --- Traditional Medicine Practitioners --- Religiosity Coping --- Spiritual Coping --- Coping, Religiosity --- Coping, Spiritual --- Religiosity Copings --- Kampung Mercang (Terengganu, Malaysia) --- aesthetics. --- ancient greece. --- anthropology. --- body and soul. --- comparative studies of health systems and medical care. --- harmony. --- healing ceremony. --- healing seance. --- healing. --- humans and spirits. --- illness. --- india. --- indigenous medical tradition. --- indigenous peoples. --- inner winds. --- islam. --- japan. --- malay medical lore. --- malay medicine. --- malay shaman. --- medicine. --- multicultural. --- muslim. --- performance of healing. --- performance. --- psychology. --- relive pain. --- shamanism. --- southeast asia. --- spirit world. --- trance.

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