Tradisi and Moderen , Village and State

Emergent Tensions in a Sasak Health Quest

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ID19005734
AuthorsCynthia Hunter (0000-0002-5511-5660, University of Newcastle Australia, corresponding author)
Year2000
Volume11
Issue3
Pages155-173
Publication date2000-12-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueThe Australian Journal of Anthropology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1035-8811 • E-ISSN: 1757-6547
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/j.1835-9310.2000.tb00054.x
OpenAlexW2026346133
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited16

On Lombok island, in the province of West Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia, indigenous medicine and biomedicine coexist. Nevertheless, biomedicine, a product of modernity and the development of the state has been superimposed on village life along with other state institutions such as education. In this paper I analyse the processes involved in Sasak villagers' quest for health. Operating within various and sometimes overlapping social fields and conflicting discourses, villagers utilise both local indigenous practices as well as the Indonesian national health system in their quest. Because local or ordinary knowledge is a rich resource for interpretation, I describe the health quest through the participant individuals: family members, neighbours, doctors and nursing personnel involved. The subjectivity of the individual participants contributes to the intricate unfolding of health seeking quests to expose the various tensions which emerge between tradition ( tradisi [ I ]) and modernity ( moderen [ I ]) and between state and village

Biomedicine · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Indigenous · Indonesian · Modernity · Political science · Social science · Sociology · Subjectivity · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Asian Studies and History · Gender Studies · Law · Philosophy · Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies

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