essay
Health and living conditions
Moko daikan, compiled by Zenrin Kyokai Chosa-bu - , iii • (3) • Published In 1938 • Pages: 96-106
By: Hikage, Shigeru, Namkung, Johsel.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
The author of this article was on the staff of the Zenrin Kyokai [Good Neighborhood Association], a medical treatment 'party' in Inner Mongolia, established in 1934 during the Japanese occupation. The article begins with a cursory treatment of the climate, clothing housing, food and water supply of the people of Mongolia, but the chief emphasis is upon the medical facilities available to the Mongols and the diseases most frequently found among them. The inadequacy of the Lamaist medical practices is revealed, the medical treatment given to the natives by the Christian missionaries is discussed, and the medical practices of the Russians in Buryat-Mongolia and the Japanese in Inner Mongolia are given detailed treatment. This source is particularly valuable for precise information on the Mongolian health situation and the activities of the Japanese in the field of medicine in Mongolia. Very excellent material is also to be found here on the position of the lamas in this society, the medical training of the EMCHI lamas, and the type of medical care which they offer to their people.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Morbidity
- Acculturation and culture contact
- Preventive medicine
- Shamans and psychotherapists
- Medical care
- Prophets and ascetics
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Inner Mongolia
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2006
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Asia
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Central Asia
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- essay
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Physical Anthropologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Ruth Heffner ; 1955
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1934-1938?
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1934-1938
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, China
- NotesAdditional notes
- [by] Shigeru Hikage
- Translation of: [Eisei]
- The original Japanese text is not included
- Translation from the Japanese was done for HRAF at the University of Washington by Johsel Namkung in 1955
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Mongolia/China--Inner Mongolia--Medical care