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Herbal and magical medicine : traditional healing today / edited by James Kirkland ... [and others].
LIBRA GR110.V8 H47 1992
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Van Pelt Library GR110.V8 H47 1992
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Traditional medicine--Virginia.
- Traditional medicine.
- Traditional medicine--North Carolina.
- Medicine, Traditional.
- North Carolina.
- Virginia.
- Medical Subjects:
- Medicine, Traditional.
- North Carolina.
- Virginia.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 240 pages ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 1992.
- Summary:
- Herbal and Magical Medicine draws upon 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 major forms of naturopathic and magico-religious medicine practiced in the United States.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0822312085
- 0822312174
- OCLC:
- 24105979
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