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Tona, The Folk Healing Practices in Rural Punjab, Pakistan

Qamar, Azher Hameed
Journal article, Peer reviewed
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http://hdl.handle.net/11250/2630285
Date
2015
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Journal of Ethnology and Folkloristics. 2015, 9 (2), 59-74.  
Abstract
Consulting religion and magic for healing is an important aspect of healing belief practices. Magical thinking provides space for culturally cognitive patterns to integrate belief practices. Tona, a layman’s approach to healing that describes magicoreligious (fusion of magic and religion) and secular magic practices in rural Punjab, Pakistan, is an example of magico-religious and secular magical practice. The purpose of this study is to analyse tona as it is practiced to cure childhood diseases (sokra and sharwa) in Muslim Punjab, Pakistan. This is an ethnographic study I conducted using participant observation and unstructured interviews as the primary research methods. The study produced an in-depth analysis of tona as a healing belief practice in the light of Frazer’s principles of magical thinking and sympathetic magic. The study provides a deeper understanding of the magical thinking in magico-religious healing belief practices.
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University of Tartu, Estonian National Museum, Estonian Literary Museum
Journal
Journal of Ethnology and Folkloristics

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