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African Local Knowledge & Livestock Health : Diseases & Treatments in South Africa.
Understanding local knowledge has become a central academic project among those interested in Africa and developing countries. In South Africa, land reform is gathering pace and African people hold an increasing proportion of the livestock in the country. Animal health has become a central issue for...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Suffolk :
James Currey,
2013.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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- Machine generated contents note: Key contributions
- Context: livestock diseases in South African history
- Our research
- Historiography: towards medical and environmental pluralism
- Local knowledge and its limits
- Understanding the causes and symptoms of livestock diseases
- Livestock in African hands
- Conclusion
- Introduction
- Scientific understandings of ticks and efforts at control
- From state compulsion to individual responsibility
- the changing role of the state in relation to dipping
- Local knowledge about ticks and tick control
- Conclusion
- Introduction
- Old and new diseases
- Identifying infection: (a) the problem of naming
- Identifying infection: (b) contested clinical symptoms and post mortem findings
- Ideas about contagion, isolation and immunity
- Environment and the seasonality of diseases
- Conclusion
- context of transhumance
- Transhumance and disease
- demise of transhumance: processes and arguments
- Transhumance and grazing in Mbotyi
- Trekking between mountains and plains in QwaQwa
- Cattle posts in North West Province
- Conclusion
- Introduction: plants and biomedicines
- transfer of local knowledge: specialists, generations and gender
- Transmission of biomedical knowledge and medicine
- Choices of medicine: local medicines, biomedicines and other forms of treatment
- Conclusion
- Choice of plants
- Plant medicines in the North West Province
- Plant medicines in QwaQwa
- Plant medicines in the Eastern Cape
- Conclusion
- Witchcraft and the ambient supernatural
- Animal deaths and diseases associated with witchcraft
- ambient supernatural
- Umkhondo in Mpondoland
- Milking and the supernatural in Mbotyi
- Conclusion
- Introduction
- Mohato in contemporary cattle-owning communities
- Ideas about pollution and cattle disease in QwaQwa
- Practices and challenges
- Muthi to protect the kraal and the cattle
- Conclusion
- dynamics of local knowledge
- limits of local knowledge
- Recommendations for policy and practice
- Appendix 1 Recommendations
- Appendix 2 African Ideas about Diseases and Conditions Associated with the Environment
- Appendix 3 African Ideas about Supernatural Causation
- Appendix 4 Plants and Diseases
- Appendix 5 Non-Plant Remedies.