04418nam 2201009Ia 450 991081476710332120240516124932.00-8147-9635-40-8147-5962-91-4356-0736-810.18574/nyu/9780814759622(CKB)1000000000479505(OCoLC)181105180(CaPaEBR)ebrary10189773(SSID)ssj0000099740(PQKBManifestationID)11113206(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000099740(PQKBWorkID)10019201(PQKB)11580871(MiAaPQ)EBC865703(MdBmJHUP)muse10603(Au-PeEL)EBL865703(CaPaEBR)ebr10189773(OCoLC)780425912(DE-B1597)548192(DE-B1597)9780814759622(EXLCZ)99100000000047950520070116h20072007 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierAfrican American folk healing /Stephanie Y. Mitchem1st ed.New York :New York University Press,2007.©20071 online resource (ix, 189 pages) illustrationsBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-8147-5731-6 0-8147-5732-4 Includes bibliographical references (p. 181-186) and index.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.Cure a nosebleed by holding a silver quarter on the back of the neck. Treat an earache with sweet oil drops. Wear plant roots to keep from catching colds. Within many African American families, these kinds of practices continue today, woven into the fabric of black culture, often communicated through women. Such folk practices shape the concepts about healing that are diffused throughout African American communities and are expressed in myriad ways, from faith healing to making a mojo. Stephanie Y. Mitchem presents a fascinating study of African American healing. She sheds light on a variety of folk practices and traces their development from the time of slavery through the Great Migrations. She explores how they have continued into the present and their relationship with alternative medicines. Through conversations with black Americans, she demonstrates how herbs, charms, and rituals continue folk healing performances. Mitchem shows that these practices are not simply about healing; they are linked to expressions of faith, delineating aspects of a holistic epistemology and pointing to disjunctures between African American views of wellness and illness and those of the culture of institutional medicine.African AmericansFolkloreAfrican AmericansMedicineMedicine showsHistoryAfrican.American.Mitchem.about.aspects.between.culture.delineating.disjunctures.epistemology.expressions.faith.healing.holistic.illness.institutional.linked.medicine.pointing.practices.shows.simply.that.these.they.those.views.wellness.African AmericansAfrican AmericansMedicine.Medicine showsHistory.398.2089/96073Mitchem Stephanie Y.1950-1712702MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910814767103321African American folk healing4105081UNINA