ISBN:
082238258X
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0822312085
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0822312174
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9780822382584
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9780822312086
,
9780822312178
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (xi, 240 p)
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ill
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24 cm
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Parallel Title:
Print version Herbal and Magical Medicine : Traditional Healing Today
DDC:
615.8/82/09755
Keywords:
Traditional medicine
;
Traditional medicine
Abstract:
Herbal and Magical Medicine draws on perspectives from folklore, anthropology, psychology, medicine, and botany to describe the traditional medical beliefs and practices among Native, Anglo- and African Americans in eastern North Carolina and Virginia. In documenting the vitality of such seemingly unusual healing traditions as talking the fire out of burns, wart-curing, blood-stopping, herbal healing, and rootwork, the contributors to this volume demonstrate how the region's folk medical systems operate in tandem with scientific biomedicine.The authors provide illuminating commentary on the ma
Description / Table of Contents:
Contents; Preface; Introduction: A Regional Approach and Multidisciplinary Perspective; 1. Folk Medicine in Contemporary America; 2. Traditional Healing Today: Moving Beyond Stereotypes; 3. Talking Fire out of Burns: A Magico-Religious Healing Tradition; 4. Parallels Between Magico-Religious Healing and Clinical Hypnosis Therapy; 5. Doctors and Root Doctors: Patients Who Use Both; 6. Rootwork from the Clinician's Perspective; 7. The Cultural Epidemiology of Spiritual Heart Trouble; 8. Herbal Medicine Among the Lumbee Indians
Description / Table of Contents:
9. Childbirth Education and Traditional Beliefs About Pregnancy and Childbirth10. Aesthetic Agency in the Folk Medical Practices and Remembrances of North Carolinians; Bibliography; Contributors; Index
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [197]-233) and index
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822382584?locatt=mode:legacy
URL:
https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780822382584
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