Concepts of illness etiology in a traditional medical system: analysis of philosophy of Aruh and healing ritual as ethnomedicine

Abstract The process of recovering from a disease can vary among ethnic groups, culminating in distinct medical systems. Indonesia, an archipelagic country with over a thousand ethnicities, requires extensive research on ethnomedicine. A critical aspect of this research is illness etiology, which pl...

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Main Author: Muhammad Anshari
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SpringerOpen 2024-04-01
Series:International Journal of Anthropology and Ethnology
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s41257-024-00107-5