Herbal and magical medicine [electronic resource] : traditional healing today / edited by James Kirkland, Holly F. Mathews, C.W. Sulivan III, and Karen Baldwin.
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 u...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Duke University Press,
1992.
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| Series: | e-Duke books scholarly collection.
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| Summary: | 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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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xi, 240 pages) : illustrations. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-233) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780822382584 082238258X 1282919784 9781282919785 9786612919787 6612919787 |
| DOI: | 10.1215/9780822382584 |
| Language: | English. |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Source of description: Print version record. |