(n.) One who prepares beef, fish, etc., for preservation by drying, salting, smoking, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) This paper examines three different sets of restraints that have evolved in three different regions of Thailand to protect supernaturalist curers from excessive accusations that could lead to harassment.
(2) It is then possible to differentiate between the shaman as primarily the mediator between the supernatural powers and man, and the medicine-man as primarily the curer of diseases through traditional techniques.
(3) In the ensuing ethnic dialog, Meratus shamans are cast as perpetrators as well as curers of the kind of illness-causing sorcery that makes Banjar most vulnerable.
(4) There appears to be little or no direct communication between local competitors among Thailand's traditional curers.
(5) He spent some time in the house of Daryatmo, a local dukun (or curer of supernatural problems) who became the first guru in Suharto's life.
(6) Both types can be provided by native curers, whereas only the former is expected from urban based general practitioners; we show how Malay parents in fact partly relate to medical doctors as if they were traditional healers.
(7) Especially in urbanizing areas, Buddhist and Muslim Thais hold in the highest esteem traditional curers whose knowledge derives from patient experimentation and the study of ancient texts.
(8) Warao herbal curers make use of more than 100 plant species from which they prepare 259 remedies.
(9) This world view motivates two conflicting modalities of medical practice: one based on the magic powers of curers (dukun), the others on the religiously validated powers of Sufi saints.
(10) The paper concludes with a discussion of the competition found among a specific group of curer-magicians, namely, Thai-Buddhist monk-practitioners.
(11) Given the often grave nature of such accusations, how have supernaturalist curers been spared from persecution during times of adversity?
(12) Rivalry among neighboring curer-magicians is so pervasive that diagnostic decisions sometimes depend in part on the relative status of previous healers on a case.
(13) Southern Muslim curers are generally mystics or spirit-mediums whose direct channels of communication with the supernatural convey remedies for afflictions but also provide guidelines for maintaining sociocultural separatism.
(14) Most curers describe themselves as specialists in one or another of these modes, but at the same time, many also recognize multiple levels of causation and multi-modal treatment alternatives for any specific affliction.
(15) He spent some time in the house of Daryatmo, a local dukun (curer of supernatural problems), who became the first guru in his life.
(16) This premise blinds researchers to differences between the medical epistemologies of lay persons and curers.
(17) These difficulties can be avoided by considering medicine as a local cultural system of symbolic meanings anchored in institutions and interpersonal interactions, and by separating the medical beliefs and activities of laypersons from those of curers.
Curser
Definition:
(n.) One who curses.
Example Sentences:
(1) "It really is, you know," she says with a leer, "because I myself am a big curser, so it's lovely to have that.