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Rongeh: A Skin Disease in West Sumtra: Its Cultural Categories and Traditional Healing Method

Very often medical anthropologist discover that traditional healers have own cultural categories in order to describe certain medical disorder. In this article the authors illustrate the case of a skin disease with the name rongeh as an exemplary case which should show the healing procedure of a tra...

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Main Authors: Alexander Stark, Fatan Hamamah Yahaya
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Published: 2015
Online Access:http://discol.umk.edu.my/id/eprint/8163/
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spelling my.umk.eprints.81632022-05-23T10:25:37Z http://discol.umk.edu.my/id/eprint/8163/ Rongeh: A Skin Disease in West Sumtra: Its Cultural Categories and Traditional Healing Method Alexander Stark Fatan Hamamah Yahaya Very often medical anthropologist discover that traditional healers have own cultural categories in order to describe certain medical disorder. In this article the authors illustrate the case of a skin disease with the name rongeh as an exemplary case which should show the healing procedure of a traditional healer in West Sumatra. Sometimes the healing method of a doctor of Western biomedicine is ineffective which could be due to the negligence of incorporating cultural categories. The medical anthropologist tries to integrate an emic point of view of the traditional healer and enable so a new viewpoint of a disease. 2015 Non-Indexed Article NonPeerReviewed Alexander Stark and Fatan Hamamah Yahaya (2015) Rongeh: A Skin Disease in West Sumtra: Its Cultural Categories and Traditional Healing Method. American Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences, 3 (4). pp. 83-89. ISSN 2329-079X http://http://wscholars.com/index.php/ajhss/article/view/704/pdf
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description Very often medical anthropologist discover that traditional healers have own cultural categories in order to describe certain medical disorder. In this article the authors illustrate the case of a skin disease with the name rongeh as an exemplary case which should show the healing procedure of a traditional healer in West Sumatra. Sometimes the healing method of a doctor of Western biomedicine is ineffective which could be due to the negligence of incorporating cultural categories. The medical anthropologist tries to integrate an emic point of view of the traditional healer and enable so a new viewpoint of a disease.
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author Alexander Stark
Fatan Hamamah Yahaya
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Fatan Hamamah Yahaya
Rongeh: A Skin Disease in West Sumtra: Its Cultural Categories and Traditional Healing Method
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Fatan Hamamah Yahaya
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title Rongeh: A Skin Disease in West Sumtra: Its Cultural Categories and Traditional Healing Method
title_short Rongeh: A Skin Disease in West Sumtra: Its Cultural Categories and Traditional Healing Method
title_full Rongeh: A Skin Disease in West Sumtra: Its Cultural Categories and Traditional Healing Method
title_fullStr Rongeh: A Skin Disease in West Sumtra: Its Cultural Categories and Traditional Healing Method
title_full_unstemmed Rongeh: A Skin Disease in West Sumtra: Its Cultural Categories and Traditional Healing Method
title_sort rongeh: a skin disease in west sumtra: its cultural categories and traditional healing method
publishDate 2015
url http://discol.umk.edu.my/id/eprint/8163/
http://http://wscholars.com/index.php/ajhss/article/view/704/pdf
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