Wind, Life, Health
Anthropological and Historical Perspectives
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Word Count
48,000 words, Guess
Page Count
192 pages
Physical Format
Paperback
Identifiers
- ISBN-101405178930
- ISBN-139781405178938
- Goodreads3154084
- Library of Congress Control Number2007042074
- OCLC Control Number176861025
and 2 more
- Better World Books9781405178938
- Open LibraryOL11650594M
Classifications
- LCCGF71 .W56 2008
- LCCGF71.W56 2007
Description
"Through a series of thought-provoking articles, Wind, Life, Health: Anthropological and Historical Perspectives examines people's intimate relationships with the wind. Seeking a balance between detailed ethnography and broad theoretical insights, the editors have gathered a diverse group of contributors whose works illustrate the similar patterns of human/wind relationships across cultures - hunters and gatherers in the polar regions, inhabitants of the Malaysian rain forest, Andaman Islands, ancient India, China, Greece, Muslim East Africa, Victorian England, and mountain-dwelling Swiss. We discover how people through history have grappled - physically and conceptually - with winds and spirits, and how it affected their practice."--Jacket.
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