Introduction Healing Powers in Contemporary Asia by Linda H. Connor Healing in the Modern State: Korea, Malaysia, and India The Cultural Politics of "Superstition" in the Korean Shaman World: Modernity Constructs Its Other by Laurel Kendall Tradition and Change in Malay Healing by Carol Laderman Modernity and the Midwife: Contestations Over a Subaltern Figure, South India by Kalpana Ram The Political Ecology of Health in India: Indigestion as Sign and Symptom of Defective Modernization by Mark Nichter Healing on the Margins: Malaysia, Indonesia, and China Engaging the Spirits of Modernity: The Temiars by Marina Roseman Presence, Efficacy, and Politics in Healing Among the Iban of Sarawak by Amanda Harris Sorcery and Science as Competing Models of Explanation in a Sasak Village by Cynthia L. Hunter Medicines and Modernities in Socialist China: Medical Pluralism, the State, and Naxi Identities in the Lijiang Basin by Sydney D. White Healing Power and Identity in Tibetan Societies Tibetan Medicine at the Crossroads: Radical Modernity and the Social Organization of Traditional Medicine in the Tibet Autonomous Region, China by Craig R. Janes Partuclarizing Modernity: Tibetan Medical Theorizing of Women's Health in Lhasa, Tibet by Vincanne Adams Tibetan Medicine in Contemporary India: Theory and Practice by Geoffrey Samuel Glossary of Tibetoan Terms Index