Berghahn Series
Epistemologies of Healing
General Editors:
Elisabeth Hsu, Professor of Anthropology, University of Oxford
Emily Pierini, Assistant Professor, Sapienza University of Rome
Editorial Board:
Marina Roseman, Queen's University Belfast
Michael Lambek, University of Toronto
Mary-Jo DelVecchio, Harvard University
This series publishes monographs and edited volumes on so-called traditional medical treatment, alternative and complementary medicine, religious, spiritual and faith healing, plant-based and other ethnobiological treatments. The emphasis is on different forms of healing, knowing and doing, in comparison with other practices, and in recognition of the fluidity between them.
Submissions
Please direct initial proposals and queries regarding the series to the General Editors.
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Volume 22
Fragile Futures
Ambiguities of Care in Burkina Faso
Helle Samuelsen
Published: 2024 -
Volume 21
Breathing Hearts
Sufism, Healing, and Anti-Muslim Racism in Germany
Nasima Selim
Published: 2024 -
Volume 20
Chinese Medicine in East Africa
An Intimacy with Strangers
Elisabeth Hsu
Published: 2022 -
Volume 19
Configuring Contagion
Ethnographies of Biosocial Epidemics
Edited by Lotte Meinert and Jens Seeberg
Published: 2022 -
Volume 18
Fierce Medicines, Fragile Socialities
Grounding Global HIV Treatment in Tanzania
Dominik Mattes
Published: 2019 -
Volume 17
Capturing Quicksilver
The Position, Power, and Plasticity of Chinese Medicine in Singapore
Arielle A. Smith
Published: 2018 -
Volume 16
Ritual Retellings
Luangan Healing Performances through Practice
Isabell Herrmans
Published: 2015 -
Volume 15
Healing Roots
Anthropology in Life and Medicine
Julie Laplante
Published: 2015 -
Volume 14
Asymmetrical Conversations
Contestations, Circumventions, and the Blurring of Therapeutic Boundaries
Edited by Harish Naraindas, Johannes Quack, and William S. Sax
Published: 2014 -
Volume 13
The Body in Balance
Humoral Medicines in Practice
Edited by Peregrine Horden and Elisabeth Hsu
Published: 2013 -
Volume 12
Manufacturing Tibetan Medicine
The Creation of an Industry and the Moral Economy of Tibetanness
Martin Saxer
Published: 2013 -
Volume 11
Fortune and the Cursed
The Sliding Scale of Time in Mongolian Divination
Katherine Swancutt
Published: 2012 -
Volume 10
Medicine Between Science and Religion
Explorations on Tibetan Grounds
Edited by Vincanne Adams, Mona Schrempf, and Sienna R. Craig
Published: 2010 -
Volume 9
Moral Power
The Magic of Witchcraft
Koen Stroeken
Published: 2010 -
Volume 8
Folk Healing and Health Care Practices in Britain and Ireland
Stethoscopes, Wands and Crystals
Edited by Ronnie Moore and Stuart McClean
Published: 2010 -
Volume 7
Morality, Hope and Grief
Anthropologies of AIDS in Africa
Edited by Hansjörg Dilger and Ute Luig
Published: 2010 -
Volume 6
Plants, Health and Healing
On the Interface of Ethnobotany and Medical Anthropology
Edited by Elisabeth Hsu and Stephen Harris
Published: 2010 -
Volume 5
The Land Is Dying
Contingency, Creativity and Conflict in Western Kenya
Paul Wenzel Geissler and Ruth Jane Prince
Published: 2010 -
Volume 4
Dances with Spiders
Crisis, Celebrity and Celebration in Southern Italy
Karen Lüdtke
Published: 2008 -
Volume 3
Working with Spirit
Experiencing Izangoma Healing in Contemporary South Africa
Jo Thobeka Wreford
Published: 2008 -
Volume 2
Precious Pills
Medicine and Social Change among Tibetan Refugees in India
Audrey Prost
Published: 2008 -
Volume 1
Conjuring Hope
Healing and Magic in Contemporary Russia
Galina Lindquist
Published: 2005