"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 |
âMy Soul Is A Witnessâ
“My Soul Is A Witness” |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910557316803321 |
Henderson Carol
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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
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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
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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->
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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->
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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 |
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->
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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 |
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->
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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 |
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 |
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
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Paris, : Éditions de l’École des hautes études en sciences sociales, 2019 | ||
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