American Folk Medicine A Symposium.

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Hand, Wayland D.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley : University of California Press, 2021.
Temas:
Traditional medicine > North America > Congresses.
MEDICAL / General
Traditional medicine.
North America.
Conference papers and proceedings.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Intro
  • Contents
  • Foreword
  • Introduction
  • Folk Medicine and History
  • The Madstone
  • The Role of Animals in Infant Feeding
  • The Mole in Folk Medicine: A Survey From Indic Antiquity to Modern America I
  • The Mole in Folk Medicine: A Survey From Indic Antiquity to Modern America II
  • Miraculous Restoration of Lost Body Parts: Relationship to the Phantom Limb Phenomenon and to Limb-Burial Superstitions and Practices
  • A New Approach to the "Old Hag": The Nightmare Tradition Reexamined
  • The Interrelationship of Scientific and Folk Medicine in the United States of America since 1850
  • Shamanic Equilibrium: Balance and Mediation in Known and Unknown Worlds
  • California Indian Shamanism and Folk Curing
  • American Indian Foods Used as Medicine
  • Communication Networks and Information Hierarchies in Native American Folk Medicine: Tewa Pueblos, New Mexico
  • Plant Hypnotics among the North American Indians
  • Medical Folklore in Spanish America
  • The Role of the Curandero in the Mexican American Folk Medicine System in West Texas
  • Some Aspects of Folk Medicine among Spanish-speaking People in Southern Arizona
  • A Survey of Folk Medicine in French Canada from Early Times to the Present
  • Folk Medicine in French Louisiana
  • Hohman and Romanus: Origins and Diffusion of the Pennsylvania German Powwow Manual
  • Folk Medicine and Sympathy Healing among the Amish
  • The Other Kind of Doctor: Conjure and Magic in Black American Folk Medicine
  • Birthmarks and Psychic Imprinting of Babies in Utah Folk Medicine
  • Healing in a Balmyard: The Practice of Folk Healing in Jamaica, W.I.
  • Doing What, with Which, and to Whom? The Relationship of Case History Accounts to Curing
  • Texas and Southwest Medical Lore in the Anderson Collection, University of Houston
  • Index

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