American Folk Medicine : A Symposium / edited by Wayland D. Hand.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hand, Wayland D., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Traditional medicine--North America--Congresses.

Traditional medicine.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (354 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, California : University of California Press, 1980.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1976.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Foreword

Introduction

Folk Medicine and History

The Madstone

The Role of Animals in Infant Feeding

The Mole in Folk Medicine: A Survey From Indic Antiquity to Modern America I

The Mole in Folk Medicine: A Survey From Indic Antiquity to Modern America II

Miraculous Restoration of Lost Body Parts: Relationship to the Phantom Limb Phenomenon and to Limb-Burial Superstitions and Practices

A New Approach to the "Old Hag": The Nightmare Tradition Reexamined

The Interrelationship of Scientific and Folk Medicine in the United States of America since 1850

Shamanic Equilibrium: Balance and Mediation in Known and Unknown Worlds

California Indian Shamanism and Folk Curing

American Indian Foods Used as Medicine

Communication Networks and Information Hierarchies in Native American Folk Medicine: Tewa Pueblos, New Mexico

Plant Hypnotics among the North American Indians

Medical Folklore in Spanish America

The Role of the Curandero in the Mexican American Folk Medicine System in West Texas

Some Aspects of Folk Medicine among Spanish-speaking People in Southern Arizona

A Survey of Folk Medicine in French Canada from Early Times to the Present

Folk Medicine in French Louisiana

Hohman and Romanus: Origins and Diffusion of the Pennsylvania German Powwow Manual

Folk Medicine and Sympathy Healing among the Amish

The Other Kind of Doctor: Conjure and Magic in Black American Folk Medicine

Birthmarks and Psychic Imprinting of Babies in Utah Folk Medicine

Healing in a Balmyard: The Practice of Folk Healing in Jamaica, W.I.

Doing What, with Which, and to Whom? The Relationship of Case History Accounts to Curing

Texas and Southwest Medical Lore in the Anderson Collection, University of Houston

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780520336773

0520336771

OCLC:

1153540016