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Herbal and Magical Medicine
Kirkland
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Description for Herbal and Magical Medicine
Paperback. Editor(s): Kirkland, James K.; Matthews, Holly F.; Sullivan, Charles W.; Baldwin, Karen. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; MMG; VXH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5944 x 3887 x 20. Weight in Grams: 395.
Herbal and Magical Medicine draws on 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. Other essays explain the persistence of ... Read more
Herbal and Magical Medicine draws on 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. Other essays explain the persistence of ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1992
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
North Carolina, United States
ISBN
9780822312178
SKU
V9780822312178
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About Kirkland
James Kirkland is Professor of English at East Carolina University. Holly F. Mathews is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at East Carolina University. C. W. Sullivan III is Professor of English at East Carolina University. Karen Baldwin is an Associate Professor of English at East Carolina University and Director or the ECU Folklore Archive.
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