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Healers and Empires in Global History Healing as Hybrid and Contested Knowledge Edited by Markku Hokkanen · Kalle Kananoja Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies Series Series Editors Richard Drayton Department of History King’s College London London, UK Saul Dubow Magdalene College University of Cambridge Cambridge, UK The Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies series is a collection of studies on empires in world history and on the societies and cultures which emerged from colonialism. It includes both transnational, compar- ative and connective studies, and studies which address where particu- lar regions or nations participate in global phenomena. While in the past the series focused on the British Empire and Commonwealth, in its cur- rent incarnation there is no imperial system, period of human history or part of the world which lies outside of its compass. While we particularly welcome the first monographs of young researchers, we also seek major studies by more senior scholars, and welcome collections of essays with a strong thematic focus. The series includes work on politics, econom- ics, culture, literature, science, art, medicine, and war. Our aim is to col- lect the most exciting new scholarship on world history with an imperial theme. More information about this series at http://www.palgrave.com/gp/series/13937 Markku Hokkanen · Kalle Kananoja Editors 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 ISBN 978-3-030-15490-5 ISBN 978-3-030-15491-2 (eBook) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-15491-2 Library of Congress Control Number: 2019934455 © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019 This work is subject to copyright. 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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. v c 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 vii viii CONTENTS 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 l c ist of ontributors 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 ix l f ist of igures 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 xi
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