essay
The healing gift
For the sake of our future: sacrificing in eastern Indonesia • 42 • Published In 1996 • Pages: 318-336
By: Platenkamp, Jos. D. M..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This study discusses the centrality of gift exchanges between health practitioners and patients. The Tobelo perceive illness as manifestation of a broken relationship between a patient and certain supernatural entities, including the spirits of deceased ancestors. Medical practitioners seek to heal patients by mending the rupture through gift transactions. The author notes the implications of such transactions for understanding sacredness and part-whole relationships.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Pharmaceuticals
- Exchange transactions
- Theory of disease
- Medical therapy
- Cosmology
- Revelation and divination
- Magic
- Ethnopsychology
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Tobelo
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Asia
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Southeast 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.
- 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
- Teferi Abate Adem; 2021
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1979-1980, 1982
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1979-1982
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- northern Halmahera Island, North Maluku, Indonesia
- NotesAdditional notes
- Jos. D. M. Platenkamp
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 335-336)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 98104836
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Tobelo (Indonesian people)