Healing Roots: Anthropology in Life and Medicine
Julie Laplante
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Description for Healing Roots: Anthropology in Life and Medicine
Hardback. Series: Epistemologies of Healing. Num Pages: 276 pages, 25 illus. BIC Classification: PSXM. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 238 x 161 x 29. Weight in Grams: 584.
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 “medicine,” thus easily making its way into people’s lives and becoming the choice of everyday healing for Xhosa healer-diviners and Rastafarian herbalists. This “natural” 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 “open air” to controlled environments — learning from ... Read more
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Publisher
Berghahn Books
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Series
Epistemologies of Healing
Condition
New
Weight
593g
Number of Pages
302
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781782385547
SKU
V9781782385547
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99-15
About Julie Laplante
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). ... Read more
Reviews for Healing Roots: Anthropology in Life and Medicine
“Overall, Laplante’s Healing Roots, focusing on the tensions between the biomedical and traditional healing–based ways of making a medicine is an informative and important contribution to the literature [of] intrinsic value in the classroom, primarily for graduate-level students with specific interests in South Africa and the crossroads of ethnopharmacology and biomedicine.” • Medical Anthropology Quarterly “Healing Roots ... Read more