Healing roots : anthropology in life and medicine /
"Umhlonyane, also known as Artemisia afra, is one of the oldest and best-documented Indigenous medicines in South Africa. This bush, which grows wild throughout the sub-Saharan region, smells and tastes like "medicine," thus easily making its way into people's lives and becoming...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
Publicado: |
New York :
Berghahn Books,
2015.
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Colección: | Epistemologies of healing ;
v. 15. |
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: tracing the preclinical trial of an Indigenous plant
- Knowing umhloyane/Artemisia afra
- Engaging in medicine
- Tracing medicine/wayfaring
- Imagining Indigeneity
- Healing the nation
- Dreams, ancestors and sound healing
- Weaving molecules in life
- Conclusion
- imagining the clinical trial.