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Cure a nosebleed by holding a silver quarter on the back of the neck. Treat an earache with sweet oil drops. Wear plant roots to keep from catching colds. Within many African American families, these kinds of practices continue today, woven into the fabric of black culture, often communicated throug...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Mitchem, Stephanie Y., 1950-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : New York University Press, ©2007.
Temas:
African Americans > Folklore.
African Americans > Medicine.
African Americans.
Spiritual healing.
Folklore.
Black or African American
Folklore
Spiritual Therapies
Medicine, Traditional
Faith Healing
Noirs américains > Folklore.
Noirs américains > Médecine.
Noirs américains.
Guérison par la foi.
African American.
folklore (culture-related concept)
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Folklore & Mythology.
Spiritual healing
African Americans
African Americans > Medicine
Volksmedizin
United States
Schwärze
USA
African.
American.
Mitchem.
about.
aspects.
between.
culture.
delineating.
disjunctures.
epistemology.
expressions.
faith.
healing.
holistic.
illness.
institutional.
linked.
medicine.
pointing.
practices.
shows.
simply.
that.
these.
they.
those.
views.
wellness.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • Historical paths to healing
  • Stories and cures : defining African American folk healing
  • Healing, the Black body, and institutional medicine : contexts for crafting wellness
  • Healing in place : from past to present
  • Today's healing traditions
  • Healing and hybridity in the twenty-first century
  • Healing the past in the present
  • Religion, spirituality, and African American folk healing
  • Hoodoo, conjure, and folk healing
  • Conclusion.

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