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Native African Medicine : With Special Reference to Its Practice in the Mano Tribe of Liberia / George Way Harley.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Harley, George Way, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mano (African people).
- Medicine--Africa.
- Medicine.
- Medicine--Liberia.
- Medicine, Magic, mystic, and spagiric.
- Medicine, Traditional.
- Local Subjects:
- Mano (African people).
- Medicine--Africa.
- Medicine--Liberia.
- Medicine, Magic, mystic, and spagiric.
- Medicine, Traditional.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (310 p.): 1 Frontispiz, 1 Kte
- Edition:
- Reprint 2014
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2014]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- No detailed description available for "Native African Medicine".
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- INTRODUCTORY NOTE / S. Coon, Carleton
- PREFACE
- CONTENTS
- INTRODUCTION
- CHAPTER I. THE ΜΑΝΟ PEOPLE
- CHAPTER II. MEDICINE IN GENERAL, OR MAN'S CONTROL OF HIDDEN POWER
- CHAPTER III. MEDICINE DISTINGUISHED FROM RELIGION
- CHAPTER IV. THE ΜΑΝΟ CONCEPTION OF DISEASE
- CHAPTER V. RATIONAL TREATMENT OF DISEASE
- CHAPTER VI. MAGICAL TREATMENT OF DISEASE
- CHAPTER VII. TREATMENT OF DISEASE, PARTLY RATIONAL, PARTLY MAGICAL
- CHAPTER VIII. TREATMENT OF SNAKEBITE
- CHAPTER IX. THE BA KONA, A SOCIETY FOR THE TREATMENT OF SNAKEBITE
- CHAPTER Χ. MEDICINE IN THE PORO
- CHAPTER XI. MEDICINE IN CERTAIN OTHER SECRET SOCIETIES
- CHAPTER XII. BLACK MAGIC AND POISON
- CHAPTER XIII. DIVINATION
- CHAPTER XIV. SPECIAL MEDICINES AND SACRED OBJECTS
- CHAPTER XV. SUMMARY AND CONCLUSION
- SUPPLEMENTARY CHAPTER NATIVE MEDICAL PRACTICE IN AFRICA AS A WHOLE
- APPENDIX. EXCERPTS FROM THE LITERATURE ON AFRICAN MEDICINE
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- BOTANICAL LIST
- INDEX
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Mai 2019)
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-674-18304-5
- OCLC:
- 1013956903
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