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| Subject |
Pga K'nyau, Karen, knowledge management, folk healers, Ban Chan, Chiang Mai |
| Author |
Surinthorn Wongkhamdaeng |
| Title |
Knowledge management of Pga K'nyau folk healers in Ban Chan Sub-district, Mae Chaem District, Chiang Mai Province |
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Thesis |
Original Language of Text |
Thai |
| Ethnic Identity |
Paganyaw,
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Language and Linguistic Affiliations |
Sino-Tibetan |
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Total Pages |
110 p. |
Year |
2007 |
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Surinthorn Wongkhamdaeng. (2007). Knowledge management of Pga K'nyau folk healers in Ban Chan Sub-district, Mae Chaem District, Chiang Mai Province. M.A. Thesis (Health Promotion), Faculty of Graduate Studies, Chiang Mai University. |
| Abstract |
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The thesis examined the knowledge management of Karen folk healers, consisting of shamans, herbalists and midwives. The data were collected by observation and interviewing the healers and villagers seeking their treatments.
It is found that the healers were given healing knowledge from their ancestors or the elderly. However, knowledge transmission was informal and unsystematic without group formation. Nevertheless, they shared knowledge among one another. Their treatments emphasized the integration between their beliefs, traditions and culture. It is further found that, due to progress and modernization in the community, young people were not interested in maintaining the traditional lifestyle, making conventional knowledge vulnerable to disappearing in the future.
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