Healers and Empires in Global History: Healing as Hybrid and Contested Knowledge

284 Pages·2019·3.062 MB·English

by  Markku Hokkanen, Kalle Kananoja

Healers and Empires
in Global History
Healing as Hybrid and
Contested Knowledge
Edited by Markku Hokkanen · Kalle Kananoja
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Markku Hokkanen · Kalle Kananoja
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Healers and Empires
in Global History
Healing as Hybrid and Contested Knowledge
Editors
Markku Hokkanen Kalle Kananoja
Department of History African Studies
University of Oulu University of Helsinki
Oulu, Finland Helsinki, Finland
Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies Series
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cknowledgements
The editors acknowledge with gratitude the support of the Helsinki
Collegium of Advanced Studies and the Department of History,
University of Oulu. They are also very grateful to Jari Eilola, Antti
Hernesniemi, Marja-Liisa Honkasalo, Tuomas Laine-Frigren, and Marja
Tiilikainen for discussing an earlier version of the introduction; and to
Molly Beck and Maeve Sinnott of Palgrave Macmillan for guiding this
project to the end. Markku would like to thank the Academy of Finland
(project no.121514), the Emil Aaltonen Foundation, the Department
of History, Chancellor College, University of Malawi, Wapulumuka
Mulwafu, Kings M. Phiri, Harvey C. Chidoba Banda, Anne Digby, Timo
Särkkä, Anssi Halmesvirta, Heini Hakosalo, Harri Englund and Liz
Eastcott. Kalle would like to thank Dorit Brixius, Hugh Cagle, Jonna
Katto, Lauri Tähtinen, Case Watkins, and Holger Weiss for inspiration
and support.
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ontents
1 Healers and Empires in Global History: Healing
as Hybrid and Contested Knowledge 1
Markku Hokkanen and Kalle Kananoja
2 Traditional Arctic Healing and Medicines of
Modernisation in Finnish and Swedish Lapland 27
Ritva Kylli
3 Reports on Encounters of Medical Cultures:
Two Physicians in Sweden’s Medical and Colonial
Connections in the Late Eighteenth Century 55
Saara-Maija Kontturi
4 Tibetan Medicine and Buddhism in the Soviet Union:
Research, Repression, and Revival, 1922–1991 81
Ivan Sablin
5 Contestation, Redefinition and Healers’ Tactics
in Colonial Southern Africa 115
Markku Hokkanen
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6 Complicating Hybrid Medical Practices in the Tropics:
Examining the Case of São Tomé and Príncipe,
1850–1926 149
Rafaela Jobbitt
7 Doctors, Healers and Charlatans in Brazil: A Short
History of Ideas, c. 1650–1950 179
Kalle Kananoja
8 Risking Obeah: A Spiritual Infrastructure in the Danish
West Indies, c. 1800–1848 203
Gunvor Simonsen
9 Toward a Typology of Nineteenth-Century Lakota
Magico-Medico-Ritual Specialists 239
David C. Posthumus
Index 273
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Markku Hokkanen Department of History, University of Oulu, Oulu,
Finland
Rafaela Jobbitt Lakehead University, Thunder Bay, ON, Canada
Kalle Kananoja University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
Saara-Maija Kontturi University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylä, Finland
Ritva Kylli University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland
David C. Posthumus University of South Dakota, Vermillion, SD, USA
Ivan Sablin University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
Gunvor Simonsen University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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Fig. 8.1 Spiritual experts and their clients. Charte over
den Danske Øe St. Croix i America, by P.L. Oxholm, 1794
(Courtesy of the Royal Danish Library) 225
Fig. 9.1 Holy men and medicine men 257
Fig. 9.2 Holy men, conjurors, and medicine men 262
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