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African American folk healing / / Stephanie Y. Mitchem



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Autore: Mitchem Stephanie Y. <1950-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: African American folk healing / / Stephanie Y. Mitchem Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: New York, : New York University Press, c2007
Edizione: 1st ed.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (ix, 189 pages) : illustrations
Disciplina: 398.2089/96073
Soggetto topico: African Americans
African Americans - Medicine
Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 181-186) and index.
Nota di contenuto: 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.
Sommario/riassunto: 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.
Titolo autorizzato: African American folk healing  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-8147-9635-4
0-8147-5962-9
1-4356-0736-8
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910814767103321
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