Healing Roots

Anthropology in Life and Medicine

Julie Laplante (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

302 Seiten

2015
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-78238-554-7 (ISBN)

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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.

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).

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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

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Reihe/Serie	Epistemologies of Healing
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	572 g
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Humanbiologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-78238-554-1 / 1782385541
ISBN-13	978-1-78238-554-7 / 9781782385547
Zustand	Neuware