[Discussion] CFP: Traditional Medicine of the Peoples of Siberia, Central and Inner Asia.

[Sule Tarakcioglu]

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 =96 Dr. Earle Waugh (University of Alberta,
Canada. E-mail: Earle.Waugh@ualberta.ca).

The project executive (translator and editor) =96 Andrei Vinogradov
(University of Saskatchewan, Canada. E-mail: aav242@mail.usask.ca ).

The topics of the papers may be different =96 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 =93wide=94 (e.g., the general
description of diversity of healing approaches in a given culture) or
=93narrow=94 (e.g., the description of a single specialist or procedure).
The papers that have been sent by contributors so far, determined the
general =93cultural area=94 for the representation in the collection =96 =
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)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:
Earle.Waugh@ualberta.ca (in English)
aav242@mail.usask.ca (in Russian)

Since the collection is deliberately oriented towards the description of
cultural phenomena from the =93insider=92s=94 perspective and with inside=
r=92s
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,
aav242@mail.usask.ca