Ad Contents knowledgements Introduction Effie Gemi-lordanou, Stephen Gordon, Rober! Matthew, Ellen Melnnes ‘and Rhiannon Pettitt Early Neolithic Shamans? Performance, Healing and the Power of Skulls at Hambledon Hill, Dorset Ffion Reynolds Before Hippocrates: Healing Practices in Ancient Egypt Roger Forsh Who is Performing What and for Whom? The Dedication, Construction and Maintenance of a Healing Shrine in Roman Egypt, Jane Draycott Disease, Sin and the Walking Dead in Medieval England, c. 1100-1350: A Note on the Documentary and Archaeological Evidence wen Gordon Pilgrimage, Performance and Miracle Cures in the Twelfth-Century Miracula of St Abbe Hilary Powell Gendered Attitudes Towards Physical Tending Amongst the Piously Religious of Late Medieval Sweden Johanna Bergqoist The Rattlesnake and the Otter: Anthropology, Gender, and Contraception among the Niitsitapi (Blackfoot) in the 1930s Kristin Burnett Re-Covering the Hiroshima Maidens Amanda Jane Graham 106 12010. u. | Writing Stones and Secret Shrines: An Exploration of the Materialisation of Indigenous and Islamic Belief within West African Spiritual Medicine Bryn Trevelyan James A Note on the Ethnomedical Universe of the Asante, an Indigenous People in Ghana De-Valera N. Y. M. Botcinway Spirituality in Knowledge Production and the Practice of Traditional Herbal Medicine among the Yoruba People in Southwest Nigeria Ojo Melvin Agunbiade Contents 13 16 a