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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
Traditional Medicine of the Peoples of Siberia, Central and Inner Asia.
The Center for the Cross-Cultural Study of Traditional Healing, University
of Alberta, Canada is preparing for publication a collection of papers,
dedicated to various aspects of traditional medicine of the peoples of
Central and Inner Asia.
The Head of the project – Dr. Earle Waugh (University of Alberta, Canada.
E-mail: [log in to unmask]).
The project executive (translator and editor) – Andrei Vinogradov
(University of Saskatchewan, Canada. E-mail: [log in to unmask] ).
The topics of the papers may be different – for example, the use of healing
springs (arzhans) in Siberia, traditional diagnostic methods (e.g. pulse
diagnostics, divination), traditional disease etiologies, healing
specialists (e.g., lamas, bone-setters, shamans, mullahs), healing methods,
the health-seeking behavior (the logic of choosing one or another
specialist) and so on.
Also, the papers may be thematically “wide” (e.g., the general description
of diversity of healing approaches in a given culture) or “narrow” (e.g.,
the description of a single specialist or procedure). The papers that have
been sent by contributors so far, determined the general “cultural area” for
the representation in the collection – the Turkic and Mongolian groups.
However, we are willing to accept the papers, dedicated to the peoples of
Northern Siberia, Finno-Ugrian groups and others.
The final selection of the participants in the project will be determined on
the basis of papers or abstracts that reflect the contents of the paper and
describe the topic, the methods of research and the materials on which the
paper is based.
The deadline for the abstracts (or papers, if you have them already):
in is January 1, 2005/
The deadline for the final versions is March 1, 2005.
The papers may be written by a single author or co-authored.
Abstracts/papers should be directed to:
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Since the collection is deliberately oriented towards the description of
cultural phenomena from the “insider’s” perspective and with insider’s
expertise, the contributors who themselves belong to the cultures they study
and describe are going to be given preference. However, this does not
exclude other options!
T H A N K Y O U!
Andrei Vinogradov,
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