Ethnicity and folk healing in Honolulu, Hawaii

Abstract

This paper examines the significance of ethnicity in relation to folk healing within the context of a multiethnic urban setting. The principal findings that healers and clients are often not of the same ethnicity, that healers' practices are eclectic, and that healers and clients attempt to accommodate to one another's ethnicities are discussed. Implications of these findings for professional health care and general research are considered.