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Shamans,
Mystics, And Doctors: A Psychological inquiry
into India and its Healing Traditions.
(New York: A.Knopf, 1982)
Indian
Edition (Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1982)
British
Edition (London: Allen & Unwin, 1984)
Paperback
(Boston: Beacon Press, 1983 & Chicago: University
of Chicago Press, 1991)
German
Translation, Schamanen, Heilige
und Aerzte (Munich: Biederstein Verlag, 1984;
Beck Verlag 2006)
Spanish
Translation, Chamanes, Misticos
y Doctores (Mexico:Fondo de Cultura, 1990)
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Marathi
translation, Aushadh, Utare,
ani Aashirwad (Bombay: Majestic, 1993)
Italian
translation, Sciamani, Mistici
E Dottori (Parma: Pratiche Editrice, 1993).
2nd edition, 1995
French
translation,Chamans,Mystiques
et Medecins (Paris: du Seuil, 1997)
Hindi
translation, Sadhu, Ojha, Sant (Delhi:
Rajkamal Prakashan,2005)
Turkish
translation (Istanbul: Paradigma Yayiniari, in Press) |
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From
Reviews |
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With
extraordinary sympathy, open-mindedness, and insight
Sudhir Kakar has drawn from both his Eastern and
Western backgrounds to show how the gulf that divides
native healer from Western psychiatrist can be spanned. |
New
York Review of Books |
Kakar
insightfully draws cross-cultural analogies and points
out, where appropriate, how western and Indian practice
vary and the areas of common ground in perception
and practice. Highly recommended for psychology,
anthropology, and religion collections.
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Library
Journal
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Kakar
describes all these encounters with verve and a novelist’s
eye for detail…. he’s a uniquely privileged
observer, with a fine English style and a droll,
ingratiating presence. An extraordinary cross-cultural “field
report.”
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Kirkus
Reviews
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Fascinating
are the rich observations and insights that Sudhir
Kakar gives the reader, and his capacity to understand
the techniques and ideas of each healing tradition
from its cultural background.
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Frankfurter
Allgemeine Zeitung
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Offering
ethnographic portraits of fifteen different healing
systems, ranging from those of Dravidian shamans
to Ayurvedic doctors, Kakar combines vivid novelistic
descriptions of particular curers and their clients
with insightful “inside” accounts of
the conceptual system underlying each tradition.
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Medical
Anthropology Quarterly
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Ce
double regard donne son extreme saveur a ce livre
passionnant. Son experience du terrain, sa prise
de conscience de la relativite medicale font de lui
un heraut du dialogue des cultures.
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Le
Nouvel Observateur
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