Keeping Body and Soul Together: Social Transformation and Health Inequalities in Rural East Java
Research program: Globalisation and International Development
Rural resilience continues to play a key role in ameliorating the impacts of the Asian financial crisis on Indonesia. Although agriculture is still an important part of production, new forms of employment made accessible by stronger linkages to the broader global economy mean that livelihood patterns have become increasingly diversified. Within ongoing debates of the erasure, crossing, permeability or otherwise of borders this thesis draws on diverse documentary sources and ethnographic research to look at the importance of place in the constitution of historical processes and contemporary cultural practices in the regency of Ponorogo, East Java. This APA supported PhD thesis looks at differentiating factors through the practices of medicine and healing and the complex interrelationships between belief, morality, behaviour, access, economics, social structures, health, and wellbeing.
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