Herbal and Magical Medicine : Traditional Healing Today
James K. Kirkland
Bok Engelsk 1992 · Electronic books.
| Utgitt | Durham : : Duke University Press, , 1992.
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| Omfang | 1 online resource (255 p.)
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| Opplysninger | Description based upon print version of record.. - 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. - 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. - 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
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| Emner | Folk medicine - North Carolina
Folk medicine - Virginia Traditional medicine - Virginia Americas Vis mer... Analytical, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Techniques and Equipment
Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology, Education, Sociology and Social Phenomena Appalachian Region Complementary Therapies Culture Geographic Locations Geographicals Medicine, Traditional North America North Carolina Therapeutics United States Virginia Medicine, Traditional -- North Carolina. Medicine, Traditional -- Virginia. Traditional medicine -- North Carolina. Anthropology Folkemedisin Folklore Social Sciences folkemedisin forente stater 1900-tallet |
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| ISBN | 0822312085. - 0822312174
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