Julie Laplante: Healing Roots | Taschenbuch

Cover: 9781789200591 | Healing Roots | Anthropology in Life and Medicine | Julie Laplante

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Beschreibung

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 the plant and from the people who use it with hopes in healing.

Über den Autor

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).

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Illustrations

Acknowledgements

Abbreviations

Introduction: Tracing the Preclinical Trial of an Indigenous Plant

Chapter 1. Knowing Umhlonyane/Artemisia afra
Chapter 2. Engaging in Medicine
Chapter 3. Tracing Medicine - Wayfaring
Chapter 4. Imagining Indigeneity
Chapter 5. Healing the Nation
Chapter 6. Dreams, Ancestors and Sound Healing
Chapter 7. Weaving Molecules in Life

Conclusion: Imagining the Clinical Trial

References

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2018
Fachbereich:	Allgemeines
Genre:	Importe
Rubrik:	Sozialwissenschaften
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13:	9781789200591
ISBN-10:	1789200598
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Laplante, Julie
Hersteller:	Berghahn Books
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	229 x 152 x 17 mm
Von/Mit:	Julie Laplante
Erscheinungsdatum:	01.07.2018
Gewicht:	0,441 kg