big scale enterprises, while those in the lower class are spread over several small scale economic projects. but also in other phases of community inter-actions. Cultural Context of Folk Medicine:...

Referencing “Cultural Context of Folk Medicine: Some Philippine Cases” by F. Jocano, what is your opinion regarding indigenous cultural practices? Are they still important in the modern times wherein Science and Technology is advanced?

Extracted text: big scale enterprises, while those in the lower class are spread over several small scale economic projects. but also in other phases of community inter-actions. Cultural Context of Folk Medicine: Some Philippine Cases F. LANDA JOCANO National Museum entific and folk medical practices. In fact, there is a dearth of materials on what Introduction The problem of etiology and treat- ment of disease in its aboriginal setting has sustained the critical interest of so- makes possible the existence and opera- tion of these seemingly divergent me- thods of healing side by side the same locality without conflicts. Harold A. Gould, in appraising this problem, pointed out We know even less about the reasons cial scientists all over the world. Out- standing among the early works are W. H. Rivers' Medicine, Magic, and Religion (1924), and Forrest E. Clements' "Primi- tive Concept of Disease" (1932). Over the last twenty-years, considerable num- ber of ethnographic materials on the con- cept of disease and therapeutic practices for the persistence of folk medical prac- tices in the most sophisticated urban cultures, or about the structural ac- commodations which must be made in the primitive environment with the ad- vent of modern medical practices (1957- have become available. The modern an- thronologion n folle modicin ore 507)