Healing Roots : : Anthropology in Life and Medicine / / Julie Laplante.
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 the choice of everyda...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2015] ©2015 |
| Year of Publication: | 2015 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Epistemologies of Healing ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (302 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Introduction Tracing the Preclinical Trial of an Indigenous Plant
- Chapter 1 Knowing Umhlonyane/ Artemisia afra
- Chapter 2 Engaging in Medicine
- Chapter 3 Tracing Medicine Wayfaring
- Chapter 4 Imagining Indigeneity
- Chapter 5 Healing the Nation
- Chapter 6 Dreams, Ancestors and Sound Healing
- Chapter 7 Weaving Molecules with Life
- Conclusion Imagining the Clinical Trial
- References
- Index