Humanities and Social Sciences | Article | Published 2021

The role of healers in the uzbek medical tradition

Keywords: quack, hairdresser, master, visionary, empiric sciences, sawbones, shopkeeper, ocular (kahhol), chiropractor

Abstract

Quackery’s appearance was analyzed in Uzbek traditional knowledge in the article. Relations of society were studied based on the role of quicker in the society and functions. The present activities of physicians-bonesetters on the base of field ethnographic notes were elucidated. The classification of the healers according to the type of activity and the term "healer" in the Turkic peoples. Therefore, folk medicine types were investigated by ethnographic observations which are still living.

References

  1. http://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5841407
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