Healing traditions : African medicine, cultural exchange, and competition in South Africa, 1820-1948 / / Karen E. Flint.

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Superior document:New African histories series
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Year of Publication:2008
Language:English
Series:New African histories series.
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Physical Description:xiv, 274 p. :; ill.
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Table of Contents:
  • Healing the body : disease, knowledge, and medical practices in the Zulu kingdom
  • Healing the body politic : muthi, healers, and nation building in the Zulu kingdom
  • Early African-white encounters : healers, witchcraft, and colonial rule, 1830/91
  • Competition, race, and professionalization : African healers and white medical practitioners, 1891/1948
  • African-Indian encounters and their influence on African therapeutics, 1860/1948.