Remembering to Live: Illness at the Intersection of Anxiety and Knowledge in Rural Indonesia (Southeast Asia: Politics, Meaning, and Memory) - Hardcover

M. Cameron Hay

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0472097857 ISBN 13: 9780472097852

Publisher: University of Michigan Press, 2001

Synopsis

Sasaks, a people of the Indonesian archipelago, cope with one of the country's worst health records by employing various medical traditions, including their own secret ethnomedical knowledge. But anxiety, in the presence and absence of illness, profoundly shapes the ways Sasaks use healing and knowledge. Hay addresses complex questions regarding cultural models, agency, and other relationships to conclude that the ethnomedical knowledge they use to cope with their illnesses ironically inhibits improvements in their health care.
M. Cameron Hay is a NSF Advance Fellow and an Assistant Adjunct Professor at the UCLA Center for Culture and Health.

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..".a major contribution to anthropological studies of health and ethnographies of Indonesia and Southeast Asia. [Hay's] engaging style, descriptive luminosity, and theoretical reach make this appropriate for undergraduate and advanced audiences."

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Michigan Press
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0472097857
• ISBN 13: 9780472097852
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 360