Healing Roots (eBook)

Anthropology in Life and Medicine

Julie Laplante (Autor)

eBook Download: PDF

2015
302 Seiten
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-78238-555-4 (ISBN)

Infos

Umhlonyane, also known as Artemisia afra, is one of the oldest and best-documented indigenous medicines in South Africa. This bush, which grows wild throughout the sub-Saharan region, smells and tastes like "e;medicine,"e; thus easily making its way into people's lives and becoming the choice of everyday healing for Xhosa healer-diviners and Rastafarian herbalists. This "e;natural"e; remedy has recently sparked curiosity as scientists search for new molecules against a tuberculosis pandemic while hoping to recognize indigenous medicine. Laplante follows umhlonyane on its trails and trials of becoming a biopharmaceutical - from the "e;open air"e; to controlled environments - learning from the plant and from the people who use it with hopes in healing.

Autor

Julie Laplante is Associate Professor of Anthropology in the School of Sociological and Anthropological Studies at the University of Ottawa. Senior research fellow at the Max Planck Institute für etnologische forschung (2006-2010), she has published in numerous journals and is the author of Pouvoir Guérir. Médecines autochtones et humanitaires (Power/Ability to Heal. Indigenous and humanitarian medicine).  

Inhalt

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 in Life

Conclusion: Imagining the Clinical Trial

References

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.2.2015
• Reihe/Serie: Epistemologies of Healing
• Verlagsort: New York
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Naturheilkunde
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Humanbiologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: Artemisia afra • folk medicine • indigeneity • Indigenous Medicine • Medical Anthropology • Medical Anthropology, Indigenous Medicine, Traditional Medicine, Folk Medicine, Pharmacology, Indigeneity, Artemisia Afra • pharmacology • Traditional medicine
• ISBN-10: 1-78238-555-X / 178238555X
• ISBN-13: 978-1-78238-555-4 / 9781782385554