10 acknowledgments
Research for this project was made possible by grants from the Wenner Gren
Foundation for Anthropological Research and the National Science Foundation.
Some material and ideas in Chapter 4 fi rst appeared in my article “Rethinking
Anthropological Studies of the Body: Manas and Bodham in Kerala.” American
Anthropologist 104(4): 1123–1134, December 2002. Parts of Chapter 5 and some
basic ideas in this work were fi rst developed in “Th e Importance of a Pleasant
Process of Treatment: Lessons on Healing from South India.” Culture, Medicine
and Psychiatry 27: 161–186, June 2003.