Book
Sex and disease in a mountain community
Vikas Publishing Pvt Ltd. • Sahibabad, Distt. Ghaziabad • Published In 1980 • Pages:
By: Hockings, Paul.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This source is essentially a study of Badaga folk medicine with a concentration on both the cultural context of therapy and its wide-ranging pharmacopoeia. Although a major section of the book deals with the Badaga classification of curable illnesses, there are other chapters dealing with sexuality and reproduction, medical therapists and other specialists (including data on client-therapist relations and the recruitment of apprentices to the profession), general health care, and the advent of death. Of the several useful indices located at the end of the source, one in particular may be of special interest to pharmacologists. This index called the 'trilingual index of botanical identifications' provides a botanical listing of various plant substances used in the preparation of Badaga medicines.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Preventive medicine
- Elimination
- Personal hygiene
- Sex training
- Premarital sex relations
- Disabilities
- Medical therapy
- Bodily injuries
- Morbidity
- Medical care
- Conception
- Dying
- Mortality
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Badaga
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2005
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Asia
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- South Asia
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Ethnologist
- 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
- John Beierle ; 1989
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1962-1977
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1962-1977
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Nilgiri Hills, Tamil Nadu State, India
- NotesAdditional notes
- Paul Hockings
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 213-219) and index
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 80901720
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Badaga (Indic people)