William Sturman Sax
Biographic Data
| ID | 9307604 |
|---|---|
| NAME | William Sturman Sax |
| GIVEN NAMES | William Sturman |
| FAMILY NAME | Sax |
| SIGNATURE | SAX W S |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 38 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Asymmetrical Conversations: Contestations, Circumventions, and the Blurring of Therapeutic Boundaries
Ideas about health are reinforced by institutions and their corresponding practices, such as donning a patient's gown in a hospital or prostrating before a healing shrine. Even though we are socialized into regarding such ideologies as "natural" and unproblematic, we sometimes seek to bypass, circumvent, or even transcend the dominant ideologies of our cultures as they are manifested in the institutions of health care. The contributors to this vo…
God of justice: Ritual healing and social justice in the central Himalayas
Based on ten years of ethnographic fieldwork, this text offers a fascinating glimpse into the world of cursing, black magic, and ritual healing in the Central Himalayas of North India
Dancing the Self: Personhood and performance in the Pāṇḍav līlā of Garhwal
Mountain goddess: Gender and politics in a Himalayan pilgrimage
Mountain goddess: Gender and politics in a Himalayan pilgrimage
Dancing the Self: Personhood and performance in the Pāṇḍav līlā of Garhwal
God of justice: Ritual healing and social justice in the central Himalayas
Based on ten years of ethnographic fieldwork, this text offers a fascinating glimpse into the world of cursing, black magic, and ritual healing in the Central Himalayas of North India
Asymmetrical Conversations: Contestations, Circumventions, and the Blurring of Therapeutic Boundaries
Ideas about health are reinforced by institutions and their corresponding practices, such as donning a patient's gown in a hospital or prostrating before a healing shrine. Even though we are socialized into regarding such ideologies as "natural" and unproblematic, we sometimes seek to bypass, circumvent, or even transcend the dominant ideologies of our cultures as they are manifested in the institutions of health care. The contributors to this vo…
India (3 works) · Cult (2 works) · Hinduism (2 works) · Spiritual healing (2 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (1 works) · Art (1 works) · Āyurveda (1 works) · Ayurvedic Medicine (1 works) · Bhairava (Hindu deity) (1 works) · Computer Science (1 works)