Cultural Consensus Modelling is a unique method for understanding efficacious healing beliefs through time and space. In this paper I explore the potential of the method in understanding health, medicine and indigenous scientific techniques through time and space among Tribal and low caste people.
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Cultural Consensus Modelling is a unique method for understanding efficacious healing beliefs through time and space but very seldom used by anthropologists during their fieldwork. In this paper I explore the potential of the method in understanding health, medicine and indigenous scientific techniques through time and space among Tribal and low caste people. I also explore the challenges in developing and deploying the cultural consensus modelling questionnaire in relation to different cohorts, castes, language groups and religions.