Description
Book SynopsisSince our first primordial breath, wind has been a central theme of cultural thought. Wind in its different guises - from the 'natural phenomenon' of air in motion, to embodied 'life giving' experiences and deities and spirits - has contributed to the richness of human ideas and practices from ancient cultures to this very day.
Table of ContentsPreface (Elisabeth Hsu and Chris Low).
Introduction (Chris Low and Elisabeth Hsu).
1. Earth, sky, wind, and weather (Tim Ingold).
2. Wafting on the wind: smell and the cycle of spirit and matter (David Parkin).
3. Blowing 'cross the crest of Mount Galeng’: winds of the voice, winds of the spirits (Marina Roseman).
4. Khoisan wind: hunting and healing (Chris Low).
5. Time to move: winds and the political economy of space in Andamanese culture (Vishvajit Pandya).
6. The bodily winds in ancient India revisited (Kenneth G. Zysk).
7. The experience of wind in early and medieval Chinese medicine (Elisabeth Hsu).
8. Pneuma between body and soul (Geoffrey Lloyd).
9. Gruff boreas, deadly calms: a medical perspective on winds and the Victorians (Vladimir Jankovic).
10. An ill wind: the Foehn in Leukerbad and beyond (Sarah Strauss).
Index.
