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African American Folk Healing /

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Mitchem, Stephanie Y., 1950-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : New York University Press, 2007.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.