Beyond the Roof of the World: Music, Prayer, and Healing in the Pamir Mountains

Beyond the Roof of the World: Music, Prayer, and Healing in the Pamir Mountains

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 1-240

  Koen, Benjamin D ^a  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Alternative medicine; Badakhshan; Complementary medicine; Health and healing; Integrative medicine; Medical ethnomusicology; Spirituality; Tajikistan

Indexed keywords

EID: 77949349492     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195367744.001.0001     Document Type: Book

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