ISBN:
9781847010834
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (322 p)
Parallel Title:
Print version African Local Knowledge and Livestock Health : Diseases and Treatments in South Africa
DDC:
636.089096
Keywords:
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Abstract:
A much needed examination of contemporary approaches to animal healing in South Africa, and the role of local knowledge.
Abstract:
Frontcover -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Names of Common Diseases -- List of Maps, Photographs & -- Tables -- 1 Introduction: African Local Knowledge & -- Veterinary Pluralism -- Key contributions -- Context: livestock diseases in South African history -- Our research -- Historiography: towards medical and environmental pluralism -- Local knowledge and its limits -- Understanding the causes and symptoms of livestock diseases -- Livestock in African hands -- Conclusion -- 2 Ticks, Tick-borne Diseases & -- the Limits of Local Knowledge -- Introduction -- Scientific understandings of ticks and efforts at control -- From state compulsion to individual responsibility - the changing role of the state in relation to dipping -- Local knowledge about ticks and tick control -- Conclusion -- 3 'The Grave of the Cow is in the Stomach': Environment & -- Nutrition in the Explanation & -- Prevention of Livestock Diseases -- Introduction -- Old and new diseases -- Identifying infection: (a) the problem of naming -- Identifying infection: (b) contested clinical symptoms and post-mortem findings -- Ideas about contagion, isolation and immunity -- Environment and the seasonality of diseases -- Conclusion -- 4 Transhumance, Animal Diseases & -- Environment -- The context of transhumance -- Transhumance and disease -- The demise of transhumance: processes and arguments -- Transhumance and grazing in Mbotyi -- Trekking between mountains and plains in QwaQwa -- Cattle posts in North West Province -- Conclusion -- 5 Plants & -- Drugs: Medicating Livestock -- Introduction: plants and biomedicines -- The transfer of local knowledge: specialists, generations and gender -- Transmission of biomedical knowledge and medicine -- Choices of medicine: local medicines, biomedicines and other forms of treatment -- Conclusion.
Description / Table of Contents:
""Frontcover""; ""Contents""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""Abbreviations""; ""Names of Common Diseases""; ""List of Maps, Photographs & Tables""; ""1 Introduction: African Local Knowledge & Veterinary Pluralism""; ""Key contributions""; ""Context: livestock diseases in South African history""; ""Our research""; ""Historiography: towards medical and environmental pluralism""; ""Local knowledge and its limits""; ""Understanding the causes and symptoms of livestock diseases""; ""Livestock in African hands""; ""Conclusion""; ""2 Ticks, Tick-borne Diseases & the Limits of Local Knowledge""
Description / Table of Contents:
""Introduction""""Scientific understandings of ticks and efforts at control""; ""From state compulsion to individual responsibility � the changing role of the state in relation to dipping""; ""Local knowledge about ticks and tick control""; ""Conclusion""; ""3 �The Grave of the Cow is in the Stomach�: Environment & Nutrition in the Explanation & Prevention of Livestock Diseases""; ""Introduction""; ""Old and new diseases""; ""Identifying infection: (a) the problem of naming""; ""Identifying infection: (b) contested clinical symptoms and post-mortem findings""
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""Ideas about contagion, isolation and immunity""""Environment and the seasonality of diseases""; ""Conclusion""; ""4 Transhumance, Animal Diseases & Environment""; ""The context of transhumance""; ""Transhumance and disease""; ""The demise of transhumance: processes and arguments""; ""Transhumance and grazing in Mbotyi""; ""Trekking between mountains and plains in QwaQwa""; ""Cattle posts in North West Province""; ""Conclusion""; ""5 Plants & Drugs: Medicating Livestock""; ""Introduction: plants and biomedicines""; ""The transfer of local knowledge: specialists, generations and gender""
Description / Table of Contents:
""Transmission of biomedical knowledge and medicine""""Choices of medicine: local medicines, biomedicines and other forms of treatment""; ""Conclusion""; ""6 Medicinal Plants: Their Selection & their Properties""; ""Choice of plants""; ""Plant medicines in North West Province""; ""Plant medicines in QwaQwa""; ""Plant medicines in the Eastern Cape""; ""Conclusion""; ""7 Animal Health & Ideas of the Supernatural""; ""Introduction: Witchcraft and the ambient supernatural""; ""Animal deaths and diseases associated with witchcraft""; ""The ambient supernatural: Umkhondo in Mpondoland""
Description / Table of Contents:
""Milking and the supernatural in Mbotyi""""Conclusion""; ""8 Gender, Space & the Supernatural""; ""Introduction""; ""Mohato in contemporary cattle-owning communities""; ""Ideas about pollution and cattle disease in QwaQwa""; ""Practices and challenges""; ""Muthi to protect the kraal and the cattle""; ""Conclusion""; ""9 Conclusion""; ""The dynamics of local knowledge""; ""The limits of local knowledge""; ""Recommendations for policy and practice""; ""Appendices""; ""Appendix 1: Recommendations""; ""Appendix 2: African Ideas about Diseases and Conditions Associated with the Environment""
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""Appendix 3: African Ideas about Supernatural Causation""
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