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Wind, Life, Health: Anthropological and Historical Perspectives
ISBN: 978-1-4051-7893-8
Paperback
192 pages
April 2008, Wiley-Blackwell
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Preface (Elisabeth Hsu and Chris Low).

Introduction (Chris Low and Elisabeth Hsu).

1. Earth, sky, wind, and weather (Tim Ingold).

2. Wafting on the wind: smell and the cycle of spirit and matter (David Parkin).

3. Blowing 'cross the crest of Mount Galeng': winds of the voice, winds of the spirits (Marina Roseman).

4. Khoisan wind: hunting and healing (Chris Low).

5. Time to move: winds and the political economy of space in Andamanese culture (Vishvajit Pandya).

6. The bodily winds in ancient India revisited (Kenneth G. Zysk).

7. The experience of wind in early and medieval Chinese medicine (Elisabeth Hsu).


8. Pneuma between body and soul (Geoffrey Lloyd).

9. Gruff boreas, deadly calms: a medical perspective on winds and the Victorians (Vladimir Jankovic).

10. An ill wind: the Foehn in Leukerbad and beyond (Sarah Strauss).

Index.