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African Local Knowledge & Livestock Health: Diseases & Treatments in South Africa
Professor William Beinart
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Description for African Local Knowledge & Livestock Health: Diseases & Treatments in South Africa
Hardback. A much needed examination of contemporary approaches to animal healing in South Africa, and the role of local knowledge. Num Pages: 320 pages, 23, 18 black & white illustrations, 5 black & white line drawings, 18 black and white, 5. BIC Classification: 1HFMS; TVH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 165 x 26. Weight in Grams: 702.
A much needed examination of contemporary approaches to animal healing in South Africa, and the role of local knowledge. Understanding local knowledge has become a central academic project among those interested in Africa and developing countries. In South Africa, land reform is gathering pace and African people hold an increasing proportion of thelivestock in the country. Animal health has become a central issue for rural development. Yet African veterinary medical knowledge remains largely unrecorded. This book seeks to fill that gap. It captures for the first time the diversity, as well as the limits, of a major sphere ... Read more
A much needed examination of contemporary approaches to animal healing in South Africa, and the role of local knowledge. Understanding local knowledge has become a central academic project among those interested in Africa and developing countries. In South Africa, land reform is gathering pace and African people hold an increasing proportion of thelivestock in the country. Animal health has become a central issue for rural development. Yet African veterinary medical knowledge remains largely unrecorded. This book seeks to fill that gap. It captures for the first time the diversity, as well as the limits, of a major sphere ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
James Currey United Kingdom
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781847010834
SKU
V9781847010834
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-50
Reviews for African Local Knowledge & Livestock Health: Diseases & Treatments in South Africa
This work is an important and timely intervention.[and] should thus be of wide interest to scholars and policy makers alike.
AFRICAN AFFAIRS
African Local Knowledge is an important book. Its wider arguments are engaging and should encourage a rethinking of older, binary oppositions between 'science' and 'tradition' in other regions of African pastoral production where patterns of grazing ... Read more
AFRICAN AFFAIRS
African Local Knowledge is an important book. Its wider arguments are engaging and should encourage a rethinking of older, binary oppositions between 'science' and 'tradition' in other regions of African pastoral production where patterns of grazing ... Read more