The folk healers and their patients: Continuing viability of folk health care systems in the multiethnic settings in North Sumatra, Indonesia

The purpose of this dissertation is to examine the ways by which folk health care systems survive in a medically pluralistic setting in a developing country such as Indonesia. Interest in the anthropological studies of health care systems in developing countries has been growing and many studies have been undertaken in Southeast Asia. However, not much is known about the processes by which folk health care resources continue to exist and be utilized in multi-ethnic settings which modern sources of medical aid become available. In this study, the role and function of folk practitioners in health care and the interaction between folk practitioners and their patients are examined in the rural and urban communities of Tebing Tinggi, Deli Serdang regency, North Sumatra, Indonesia to illustrate this process.

Name thesis:degree_name

Ph.D.

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Anthropology

Grantor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Year dc:date

2011

Author dc:creator

• Yoshida, Masanori

Contributors dc:contributor

• Cunningham, Clark E.

• Anthropology, Cultural

Statement dc:rights

• Copyright 1990 Yoshida, Masanori

Language dc:language

eng

Identifier

(UMI)AAI9114477
AAI9114477

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/21000