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- Skott, Carola, 1942, et al.
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Hälsa, vård och helande - Antropologiska perspektiv : Health, caring and healing - Anthropological perspectives
- 2004
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Ingår i: Socialmedicinsk tidskrift. - 0037-833X. ; 81:6, s. 483-486
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Tidskriftsartikel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Socialantropologi kan beskrivas som studiet av människan som samhällsvarelse. Socialantropologer är intresserade av olika världsbilder och hur människor från olika kulturer och platser ser på sig själva. Grundläggande inom antropologisk forskning är tanken att vårt sätt att se på världen endast är ett bland många andra. Antropologin utmanar därför också vårt eget sätt att tänka och leva.
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- Wedel, Johan, 1962
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Häxeri som sjukdomsförklaring på Kuba
- 2004
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Ingår i: Paper presented at Sveriges Antropologförbund (SANT) annual conference Lund, 2004.
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
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- Wedel, Johan, 1962
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"Ogún är min far": Santeríareligionen på Kuba
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Ingår i: Svensk religionshistorisk årsskrift (Svenska samfundet för religionshistorisk forskning, Göteborg). - 0283-0302. ; 11 (2002), s. 171-184
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Tidskriftsartikel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
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- Wedel, Johan, 1962
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Santería healing: A journey into the Afro-Cuban world of divinities, spirits, and sorcery
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Bok (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Offering a visit inside the world of Santeria healing, this book draws upon extensive fieldwork in contemporary Cuba, including interviews with Santeria devotees, firsthand observations of divination sessions and interviews with healed patients, with comments from Santeria healers. Santería--with roots in Africa and the slave trade and rituals including divination, animal sacrifice, and possession trance--would seem an anachronism in the modern world. Still, Wedel argues, it offers treatment and ideas about illness that are flourishing and even spreading in the face of Western medicine. He shows that Santería healing is best understood as a transformation of the self, allowing the patient to experience the world in a new way. He grounds his analysis of Santería in lively and sometimes frightening narratives in which people reveal in their own words the experience of illness, sorcery, and healing. Wedel’s account will appeal to scholars and others interested in Santería, Cuba, and religious healing. He shows that Santería is not only a challenge to Western medical theory, but also an important contribution to our understanding of illness, suffering, and well-being.
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- Wedel, Johan, 1962
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Santería healing in Cuba
- 2002
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- In Cuba, from the early twentieth century up until today, the Afro-Cuban religious tradition santería has stood for health, protection, and a meaningful life for many Cubans. Santería, which has its roots in Africa and the religious beliefs of the Yoruba slaves, is currently flourishing, with both Cubans and foreigners turning to it for help in instances of ill-health. Healing in santería differs radically from Western biomedical curing. It employs rituals that include divination, sacrifice, possession trance, and herbal medicine, and emphasizes the meaningful and transcendent experience of illness. Healing is tailored to the particular form of illness and its underlying causes, and addresses relations between the afflicted and other people, spirits, and divinities. The aim of the study is to develop an understanding of how santería healing works. Through emphasis on the deeply religious and meaningful dimensions of people's experiences of healing, and examination of how santería healing is performed, it is suggested it constitutes a transformation of the self in which the ill person begins to experience the world in new ways. Santería healing implies developing a relation to a spirit-world manifested in mythology, divination systems, elaborate rituals, and nature itself. Santería healing also implies the recognition of the importance of social relations, both in terms of new forms of social support, and in terms of social explanations - such as when illness is understood as originating in disturbed relations and sorcery. The dessertation shows that santería healing reshapes the world for the initiate who thus comes to experience the world in a different and deeply meaningful way. The outcome of the healing process is not absolute, but is often achieved gradually and it is dependent on the subjective experience of the person being healed. As mind, body and social others are presented as intimately interconnected and the nature of healing as grounded in bodily experience, the self becomes understood as part of the healing process. Through santería healing, illness is turned into a constructive and positive experience; the individual is given not only the possibility to begin a new life, but also access to new forms of knowledge that may be used to heal others. The study is also intended to contribute to the study of religious healing in general. As such, it seeks to show that santeriía healing is not only a challenge to Western medical theory, but also an important contribution to our understanding of the human condition.
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- Wedel, Johan, 1962
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Sjukdomsförklaringar på Kuba
- 2004
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Ingår i: Socialmedicinsk tidskrift. - 0037-833X. ; 81:6, s. 483-86
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Tidskriftsartikel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
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