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"My Soul Is A Witness" : Reimagining African American Women's Spirituality and the Black Female Body in African American Literature
"My Soul Is A Witness" : Reimagining African American Women's Spirituality and the Black Female Body in African American Literature
Autore Henderson Carol
Pubbl/distr/stampa Basel, Switzerland, : MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2021
Descrizione fisica 1 electronic resource (138 p.)
Soggetto topico Religion & beliefs
Soggetto non controllato health
healing
ancestral mediation
illness
activism
women's rights
spirituality
Oshun
eroticism
God
Oya
ghost
spirits
honey
storms
caul
the amen corner
james baldwin
black feminism
sermon
art
literature
music
black preacher
religion
gospel music
Thomas Dorsey
Nettie Dorsey
blues
maternal death
infant mortality
hapticality
Gnosticism
womanist theology
African American women
Toni Morrison
Song of Solomon
Paradise
The Source of Self-Regard
Phillis Wheatley
race
Thomas Jefferson
Christianity
African American women writers
1970
extra-naturalism
African American women's spirituality
nommo
multimodal narrative
self-actualization
community
asylum hill project
naming
pre-emancipation
genealogy
grounds of contention
(in)visible
revisionist interrogation
spiritual translation
uppity
womanist
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Altri titoli varianti â€My Soul Is A Witness”
“My Soul Is A Witness”
Record Nr. UNINA-9910557316803321
Henderson Carol  
Basel, Switzerland, : MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2021
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Affliction : health, disease, poverty / / Veena Das
Affliction : health, disease, poverty / / Veena Das
Autore Das Veena
Edizione [First edition.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa New York : , : Fordham University Press, , 2015
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (272 p.)
Disciplina 362.1086/942
Collana Forms of living
Soggetto topico Poverty
Soggetto non controllato Illness Narrative
India
abandonment
disease
everyday life
global health
healing
health
madness
poverty
ISBN 0-8232-6891-8
0-8232-6183-2
0-8232-6184-0
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto Machine generated contents note: -- Preface 1. Affliction: An Introduction 2. How the Body Speaks 3. A Child Learns Illness and Learns Death 4. Mental Illness, Psychiatric Institutions, and the Singularity of Lives 5. Dangerous Liaisons: Technology, Kinship, and Wild Spirits 6. The Reluctant Healer and the Darkness of our Times 7. Medicines, Markets, and Healing 8. Global Health Discourse and the View from Planet Earth 9. Epilogue Note Bibliography Index.
Record Nr. UNINA-9910787251003321
Das Veena  
New York : , : Fordham University Press, , 2015
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Affliction : health, disease, poverty / / Veena Das
Affliction : health, disease, poverty / / Veena Das
Autore Das Veena
Edizione [First edition.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa New York : , : Fordham University Press, , 2015
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (272 p.)
Disciplina 362.1086/942
Collana Forms of living
Soggetto topico Poverty
Soggetto non controllato Illness Narrative
India
abandonment
disease
everyday life
global health
healing
health
madness
poverty
ISBN 0-8232-6891-8
0-8232-6183-2
0-8232-6184-0
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto Machine generated contents note: -- Preface 1. Affliction: An Introduction 2. How the Body Speaks 3. A Child Learns Illness and Learns Death 4. Mental Illness, Psychiatric Institutions, and the Singularity of Lives 5. Dangerous Liaisons: Technology, Kinship, and Wild Spirits 6. The Reluctant Healer and the Darkness of our Times 7. Medicines, Markets, and Healing 8. Global Health Discourse and the View from Planet Earth 9. Epilogue Note Bibliography Index.
Record Nr. UNINA-9910824369403321
Das Veena  
New York : , : Fordham University Press, , 2015
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African American folk healing / / Stephanie Y. Mitchem
African American folk healing / / Stephanie Y. Mitchem
Autore Mitchem Stephanie Y. <1950->
Pubbl/distr/stampa New York : , : New York University Press, , 2007
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (ix, 189 pages) : illustrations
Disciplina 398.2089/96073
Soggetto topico African Americans
African Americans - Medicine
Medicine shows - History
Soggetto non controllato African
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
ISBN 0-8147-9635-4
0-8147-5962-9
1-4356-0736-8
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
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.
Record Nr. UNINA-9910778103103321
Mitchem Stephanie Y. <1950->  
New York : , : New York University Press, , 2007
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African American folk healing / / Stephanie Y. Mitchem
African American folk healing / / Stephanie Y. Mitchem
Autore Mitchem Stephanie Y. <1950->
Edizione [1st ed.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa New York : , : New York University Press, , 2007
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (ix, 189 pages) : illustrations
Disciplina 398.2089/96073
Soggetto topico African Americans
African Americans - Medicine
Medicine shows - History
Soggetto non controllato African
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
ISBN 0-8147-9635-4
0-8147-5962-9
1-4356-0736-8
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
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.
Record Nr. UNINA-9910814767103321
Mitchem Stephanie Y. <1950->  
New York : , : New York University Press, , 2007
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Aghor medicine [[electronic resource] ] : pollution, death, and healing in northern India / / Ron Barrett ; foreword by Jonathan P. Parry
Aghor medicine [[electronic resource] ] : pollution, death, and healing in northern India / / Ron Barrett ; foreword by Jonathan P. Parry
Autore Barrett Ron <1963->
Pubbl/distr/stampa Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2008
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (240 p.)
Disciplina 306.4/6109542
Soggetto topico Medical anthropology - India - Vārānasi (Uttar Pradesh)
Aghorīs - Rituals
Healing - Religious aspects - Aghorīs
Leprosy - Treatment - India - Vārānasi (Uttar Pradesh)
Soggetto non controllato aghor medicine
aghor therapy
aghori
anthropology
ayurveda
biomedicines
cannibalism
charnel grounds
conflict
coprophagy
corpses
cremation grounds
cremation
death
hardship
healing powers
healing
health
human skulls
illness and health
india
kapalas
living naked
medical anthropology
medical conditions
meditation
multicultural medicine
northern india
political organization
politics
pollution
post mortem rites
radical
ritual bathing
ritually polluted substances
skull cups
stigmatized diseases
ISBN 1-281-38565-4
0-520-94101-2
9786611385651
1-4356-5368-8
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto Front matter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Foreword -- Note on Transliteration, Abbreviations, and Names -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. The Cosmic Sink -- 2. Fire in the Well -- 3. The Reformation -- 4. The Wrong Side of the River -- 5. Dawā and Duwā -- 6. Death and Nondiscrimination -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Glossary -- References -- Index
Record Nr. UNINA-9910782162203321
Barrett Ron <1963->  
Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2008
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Aghor medicine [[electronic resource] ] : pollution, death, and healing in northern India / / Ron Barrett ; foreword by Jonathan P. Parry
Aghor medicine [[electronic resource] ] : pollution, death, and healing in northern India / / Ron Barrett ; foreword by Jonathan P. Parry
Autore Barrett Ron <1963->
Edizione [1st ed.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2008
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (240 p.)
Disciplina 306.4/6109542
Soggetto topico Medical anthropology - India - Vārānasi (Uttar Pradesh)
Aghorīs - Rituals
Healing - Religious aspects - Aghorīs
Leprosy - Treatment - India - Vārānasi (Uttar Pradesh)
Soggetto non controllato aghor medicine
aghor therapy
aghori
anthropology
ayurveda
biomedicines
cannibalism
charnel grounds
conflict
coprophagy
corpses
cremation grounds
cremation
death
hardship
healing powers
healing
health
human skulls
illness and health
india
kapalas
living naked
medical anthropology
medical conditions
meditation
multicultural medicine
northern india
political organization
politics
pollution
post mortem rites
radical
ritual bathing
ritually polluted substances
skull cups
stigmatized diseases
ISBN 1-281-38565-4
0-520-94101-2
9786611385651
1-4356-5368-8
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto Front matter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Foreword -- Note on Transliteration, Abbreviations, and Names -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. The Cosmic Sink -- 2. Fire in the Well -- 3. The Reformation -- 4. The Wrong Side of the River -- 5. Dawā and Duwā -- 6. Death and Nondiscrimination -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Glossary -- References -- Index
Record Nr. UNINA-9910826607603321
Barrett Ron <1963->  
Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2008
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Capturing the ineffable : an anthropology of wisdom / / edited by Philip Y. Kao and Joseph S. Alter
Capturing the ineffable : an anthropology of wisdom / / edited by Philip Y. Kao and Joseph S. Alter
Pubbl/distr/stampa Toronto ; ; Buffalo ; ; London : , : University of Toronto Press, , [2020]
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (263 pages)
Disciplina 128
Soggetto topico Wisdom
Soggetto non controllato aging
anthropology
communities
consciousness
culture
epistemic
epistemology
ethnography
healing
knowledge
philosophical
wisdom
ISBN 1-4875-1726-2
1-4875-1725-4
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto Part I. Seeking Wisdom -- Part II. Discerning Wisdom -- Part III. Transmitting Wisdom -- Part IV. Narrating Wisdom.
Record Nr. UNINA-9910794030203321
Toronto ; ; Buffalo ; ; London : , : University of Toronto Press, , [2020]
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Capturing the ineffable : an anthropology of wisdom / / edited by Philip Y. Kao and Joseph S. Alter
Capturing the ineffable : an anthropology of wisdom / / edited by Philip Y. Kao and Joseph S. Alter
Pubbl/distr/stampa Toronto ; ; Buffalo ; ; London : , : University of Toronto Press, , [2020]
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (263 pages)
Disciplina 128
Soggetto topico Wisdom
Soggetto non controllato aging
anthropology
communities
consciousness
culture
epistemic
epistemology
ethnography
healing
knowledge
philosophical
wisdom
ISBN 1-4875-1726-2
1-4875-1725-4
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto Part I. Seeking Wisdom -- Part II. Discerning Wisdom -- Part III. Transmitting Wisdom -- Part IV. Narrating Wisdom.
Record Nr. UNINA-9910820880803321
Toronto ; ; Buffalo ; ; London : , : University of Toronto Press, , [2020]
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Divins remèdes : Médecine et religion en Asie du Sud / / Ines G. Županov, Caterina Guenzi
Divins remèdes : Médecine et religion en Asie du Sud / / Ines G. Županov, Caterina Guenzi
Autore Carrin Marine
Pubbl/distr/stampa Paris, : Éditions de l’École des hautes études en sciences sociales, 2019
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (360 p.)
Altri autori (Persone) Clark-DecèsIsabelle
FrenzMatthias
GuenziCaterina
PordiéLaurent
SaxWilliam
SébastiaBrigitte
SelbyMartha Ann
SpezialeFabrizio
WhiteDavid Gordon
ŽupanovInes G
Collana Purushartha
Soggetto topico Medicine, Magic, mystic, and spagiric - South Asia
Healing - South Asia - Religious aspects
Spiritual healing - South Asia
Traditional medicine - South Asia
Soggetto non controllato medicine
religion
ritual
healing
superstition
therapeutic practice
ISBN 2-7132-3146-9
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione fre
Record Nr. UNINA-9910495679203321
Carrin Marine  
Paris, : Éditions de l’École des hautes études en sciences sociales, 2019
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