Remembering to Live: Illness at the Intersection of Anxiety and Knowledge in Rural Indonesia
Remembering to Live: Illness at the Intersection of Anxiety and Knowledge in Rural Indonesia (Southeast Asia: Politics, Meaning, and Memory) [Hardcover] By M. Hay
Publisher: University of Michigan Press 2001 | 360 Pages | ISBN: 0472097857 | PDF | 2 MB
Publisher: University of Michigan Press 2001 | 360 Pages | ISBN: 0472097857 | PDF | 2 MB
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.