Abstract
Preface Ainu phonemes 1. Introduction: aims and scope of the book 2. The Ainu 3. The ethnomedical approach in anthropology and the Ainu domain of illness 4. Habitual illnesses 5. Classification of body-part and skin illnesses 6. Metaphysical illnesses and their healing rituals 7. A symbolic interpretation of metaphysical illnesses and healing rituals 8. Theories in symbolic studies and the Ainu data 9. Modes of perception and the classification of illnesses: a synthesis 10. Language and cognition: theoretical and methodological problems in arriving at perceptual categories 11. Illness, the individual, and society Appendix A. Details of Ainu habitual illnesses Appendix B. Beings and objects used in the cures of habitual illnesses Appendix C. Imu: Appendix D. Biological, cultural, and linguistic identity of the Ainu Appendix E. The history of the Sakhalin Ainu Notes References Index.
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