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Healing roots : anthropology in life and medicine / / Julie Laplante



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Autore: Laplante Julie Visualizza persona
Titolo: Healing roots : anthropology in life and medicine / / Julie Laplante Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: New York, New York ; ; Oxford, England : , : berghahn, , 2015
©2015
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (301 p.)
Disciplina: 306.4610968
Soggetto topico: Artemisia afra - Therapeutic use - South Africa
Medicinal plants - South Africa
Traditional medicine - South Africa
Medical anthropology - South Africa
Ethnopharmacology - South Africa
Molecular biology - Social aspects
Drugs - Testing
Tuberculosis - Chemotherapy
Soggetto non controllato: Artemisia Afra
Folk Medicine
Indigeneity
Indigenous Medicine
Medical Anthropology
Pharmacology
Traditional Medicine
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: 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
Sommario/riassunto: 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 everyday healing for Xhosa healer-diviners and Rastafarian herbalists. This ""natural"" remedy has recently sparked curiosity as scientists search for new molecules against a tuberculosis pandemic while hoping to recognize indigenous medicine. Laplante follows umhlonyane on its trails and trials of beco
Titolo autorizzato: Healing roots  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-78238-555-X
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910788192503321
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Serie: Epistemologies of healing ; ; Volume 15.