<i>Tona</i>, the Folk Healing Practices in Rural Punjab, Pakistan
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 magico-religious (fusion of magic and religion) and secul...
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| description | 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 magico-religious (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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| spelling | doaj-art-7f32bae039b34eb39912408045cc4a5f2025-02-02T14:00:04ZengSciendoJournal of Ethnology and Folkloristics1736-65182228-09872016-03-01925974133<i>Tona</i>, the Folk Healing Practices in Rural Punjab, PakistanAzher Hameed Qamar0Norwegian University of Science & TechnologyConsulting 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 magico-religious (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.https://www.jef.ee/index.php/journal/article/view/194childcare beliefsfolk remediesreligionmagicmagico-religious healingmagical thinking |
| spellingShingle | Azher Hameed Qamar <i>Tona</i>, the Folk Healing Practices in Rural Punjab, Pakistan Journal of Ethnology and Folkloristics childcare beliefs folk remedies religion magic magico-religious healing magical thinking |
| title | <i>Tona</i>, the Folk Healing Practices in Rural Punjab, Pakistan |
| title_full | <i>Tona</i>, the Folk Healing Practices in Rural Punjab, Pakistan |
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| title_short | <i>Tona</i>, the Folk Healing Practices in Rural Punjab, Pakistan |
| title_sort | i tona i the folk healing practices in rural punjab pakistan |
| topic | childcare beliefs folk remedies religion magic magico-religious healing magical thinking |
| url | https://www.jef.ee/index.php/journal/article/view/194 |
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