Medicine as an Ethnographic Category: The Gimi of the New Guinea Highlands

Glick, Leonard B.

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“…The findings here support the notion of cultural syndromes as localized idioms of distress that individuals can embody to represent the stress created by current living conditions. Some researchers including Glick [8] and Spiro [15] have demonstrated that being able to label a phenomenon is an important part of dealing with the realities imposed by the illness. People seek ways to understand the world around them and often times create elaborate cultural explanations for current social conditions.…”

Section: Using a Susto Symptoms Scale To Analyze Social Wellbeing In mentioning

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Using a Susto Symptoms Scale to Analyze Social Wellbeing in the Andes

Brooks¹

2016

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Susto is a cultural syndrome associated with fright that impacts Andean farmers. Measures of social wellbeing were utilized to determine possible risk factors for development of susto. Stress was measured to assess the level of social wellbeing of susto sufferers. The cultural consensus model was used to explore the distribution of understandings of susto and Andean social roles in Peru. Highlander's ability to know and enact the cultural model of Andean social roles was investigated as it related to social wellbeing. By analyzing a variety of potential factors associated with susto one can gain insight into Andean culture and social wellbeing.

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Using a Susto Symptoms Scale to Analyze Social Wellbeing in the Andes

Brooks¹

2016

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“…An unidentified Elaeagnus species has been added to tobacco and smoked to produce a trance or dream-like state by the Gimi of the Eastern Highlands (Thomas 2000 a, b;de Smet 1995de Smet , 1985Glick 1967). The genus Elaeagnus is known to contain beta-carbolines such as tetrahydroharrnan (de Smet 1995 : 37 1;Ott 1994;Allen & Holmstedt 1980).…”

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The Psychoactive Flora of Papua New Guinea

Thomas¹

2003

Journal of Psychoactive Drugs

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This article reviews the literature and current information on the psychoactive flora of Papua New Guinea. The use of psychoactive plants in Papua New Guinea has often been reported in the literature. However, most of these species are still poorly understood. It is recommended in this article that more systematic and multidisciplinary research is required on the psychoactive flora of Papua New Guinea. This rsearch has the potential for the discovery and understanding of new psychoactive drugs.

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“…In these and numerous similar instances of ritual language, healing is linked with images of power: the power to cause illness, the power to overcome or counteract negative or evil powers, the mediation of power from sources outside oneself, or the enhancement of one's existing personal power (Glick 1967). All of the groups studied hold cosmologies depicting agencies responsive to human communication (Skorupski 1976:164).…”

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Words of power: Personal empowerment and healing

McGuire

1983

Cult Med Psych

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This paper examines instances of ritual use of words in a diverse selection of alternative healing groups in a modern society. These words are distinguished by their users' belief that they are endowed with a power, an effectiveness, separate from and in addition to their literal meaning. Three specific features of ritual language contribute to its effectiveness: (1) its function as an objectification of power, (2) its transformative functions -especially its metaphoric and metonymic usages, and (3) its performative aspects. This paper argues that one of the key factors in healing illness is mobilizing resources of power, especially enhancing the ill person's sense of personal empowerment. Ritual language use in alternative healing is one of the foremost elements in this empowerment, because it both represents and objectifies power. Within a belief system in which they are significant, words of power indeed have the power to effect healing.

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Medicine as an Ethnographic Category: The Gimi of the New Guinea Highlands

Cited by 84 publications

References 13 publications

Using a Susto Symptoms Scale to Analyze Social Wellbeing in the Andes

Using a Susto Symptoms Scale to Analyze Social Wellbeing in the Andes

The Psychoactive Flora of Papua New Guinea

Words of power: Personal empowerment and healing

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