Healing roots : anthropology in life and medicine / / Julie Laplante |
Autore | Laplante Julie |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, New York ; ; Oxford, England : , : berghahn, , 2015 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (301 p.) |
Disciplina | 306.4610968 |
Collana | Epistemologies of Healing |
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 genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN | 1-78238-555-X |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
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 |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910480827203321 |
Laplante Julie
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New York, New York ; ; Oxford, England : , : berghahn, , 2015 | ||
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Healing roots : anthropology in life and medicine / / Julie Laplante |
Autore | Laplante Julie |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, New York ; ; Oxford, England : , : berghahn, , 2015 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (301 p.) |
Disciplina | 306.4610968 |
Collana | Epistemologies of Healing |
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 |
ISBN | 1-78238-555-X |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
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 |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910788192503321 |
Laplante Julie
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New York, New York ; ; Oxford, England : , : berghahn, , 2015 | ||
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Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Healing roots : anthropology in life and medicine / / Julie Laplante |
Autore | Laplante Julie |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, New York ; ; Oxford, England : , : berghahn, , 2015 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (301 p.) |
Disciplina | 306.4610968 |
Collana | Epistemologies of Healing |
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 |
ISBN | 1-78238-555-X |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
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 |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910817259203321 |
Laplante Julie
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New York, New York ; ; Oxford, England : , : berghahn, , 2015 | ||
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Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The walk without limbs : searching for Indigenous health knowledge in a rural context in South Africa / / Gebula Mji, editor |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Durbanville, Cape Town, South Africa : , : AOSIS, , [2019] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xxix, 429 pages) : illustrations, portraits |
Disciplina | 398.353 |
Soggetto topico | Traditional medicine - South Africa |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Contents -- Abbreviations, Boxes, Figures and Tables Appearing in the Text -- List of Abbreviations xixList of Boxes -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Notes on Contributors -- Declaration -- Introduction -- Section 1: Presentation of critical research findings that emerged from the PhD study: The walk without limbs -- Chapter 1: Evolution of the book - Recognising the absence of limbs -- Chapter 2: An epistemology on health and illness according to biomedical and indigenous health knowledge perspectives -- Chapter 3: Women as healers and indigenous knowledge systems and its holders: An intertwined epistemological and ontological struggle for recognition -- Chapter 4: Research methodology that drove the study -- Chapter 5: Critical study outcomes and the proposed primary healthcare model -- Chapter 6: Opting for a veil of secrecy - The silencing of indigenous health service seekers by healthcare providers in Bomvanaland -- Chapter 7: The heavy price paid by the Bomvana in questioning the Western modernity script of civilisation -- Chapter 8: Presenting the elite older Xhosa women healers of Bomvanaland in the Eastern Cape province -- Section 2: Translation and application of PhD critical research findings on the research site: The backward and forward movement - Trying to find our limbs -- Chapter 9: Steps taken to translate critical research findings -- Chapter 10: Bringing in a conversation in health and education: A missing link? -- Chapter 11: Indigenous spirituality within formal health care practice -- Chapter 12: Savings, investments and credit groups: A holistic approach to community upliftment -- Chapter 13: Community engagement in KwaXanase: Moving from fear to pride and confidence -- References -- Index. |
Altri titoli varianti | Walk without limbs |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910476856003321 |
Durbanville, Cape Town, South Africa : , : AOSIS, , [2019] | ||
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Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Working with spirit [[electronic resource] ] : experiencing izangoma healing in contemporary South Africa / / Jo Thobeka Wreford |
Autore | Wreford Jo Thobeka |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, : Berghahn Books, 2008 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (274 p.) |
Disciplina | 610.968 |
Collana | Epistemologies of healing |
Soggetto topico |
Traditional medicine - South Africa
Healing - South Africa |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-282-62667-1
9786612626678 0-85745-015-8 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Conversations in anthropological theory and method -- On the question of ancestors -- Biomedicine and izangoma sinyanga--fundamental misunderstandings and avoidable mistakes -- On "being called" (ukubiswa) -- Graduation (goduswa) and ancestral evidences -- What got into you? Ancestral en-trancement -- "Long-nosed" izangoma and relationship issues in the izangoma community -- Witchcraft and izangoma sinyanga in the time of AIDS. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910493205303321 |
Wreford Jo Thobeka
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New York, : Berghahn Books, 2008 | ||
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Working with spirit : experiencing izangoma healing in contemporary South Africa / / Jo Thobeka Wreford |
Autore | Wreford Jo Thobeka |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York : , : Berghahn Books, , 2008 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (274 pages) |
Disciplina | 610.968 |
Collana | Epistemologies of healing |
Soggetto topico |
Traditional medicine - South Africa
Healing - South Africa |
ISBN |
1-282-62667-1
9786612626678 0-85745-015-8 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Conversations in anthropological theory and method -- On the question of ancestors -- Biomedicine and izangoma sinyanga--fundamental misunderstandings and avoidable mistakes -- On "being called" (ukubiswa) -- Graduation (goduswa) and ancestral evidences -- What got into you? Ancestral en-trancement -- "Long-nosed" izangoma and relationship issues in the izangoma community -- Witchcraft and izangoma sinyanga in the time of AIDS. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910791240503321 |
Wreford Jo Thobeka
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New York : , : Berghahn Books, , 2008 | ||
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Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Working with spirit : experiencing izangoma healing in contemporary South Africa / / Jo Thobeka Wreford |
Autore | Wreford Jo Thobeka |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, : Berghahn Books, 2008 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (274 pages) |
Disciplina | 610.968 |
Collana | Epistemologies of healing |
Soggetto topico |
Traditional medicine - South Africa
Healing - South Africa |
ISBN |
1-282-62667-1
9786612626678 0-85745-015-8 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Conversations in anthropological theory and method -- On the question of ancestors -- Biomedicine and izangoma sinyanga--fundamental misunderstandings and avoidable mistakes -- On "being called" (ukubiswa) -- Graduation (goduswa) and ancestral evidences -- What got into you? Ancestral en-trancement -- "Long-nosed" izangoma and relationship issues in the izangoma community -- Witchcraft and izangoma sinyanga in the time of AIDS. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910826856303321 |
Wreford Jo Thobeka
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New York, : Berghahn Books, 2008 | ||
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Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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