Description |
1 online resource (xi, 240 pages) : illustrations |
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e-Duke books scholarly collection.
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Contents |
Introduction: a regional approach and multidisciplinary perspective / Holly F. Mathews -- Folk medicine in contemporary America / David J. Hufford -- Traditional healing today: moving beyond stereotypes / Richard Blaustein -- Talking fire out of burns: a magico-religious healing tradition / James Kirkland -- Parallels between magico-religious healing and clinical hypnosis therapy / Robert Sammons -- Doctors and root doctors: patients who use both / Holly F. Mathews -- Rootwork from the clinician's perspective / Peter R. Lichstein -- The cultural epidemiology of spiritual heart trouble / Linda A. Camino -- Herbal medicine among the Lumbee Indians / Edward M. Croom, Jr. -- Childbirth education and traditional beliefs about pregnancy and childbirth / C.W. Sullivan, III -- Aesthetic agency in the folk medical practices and remembrances of North Carolinians / Karen Baldwin |
Summary |
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 ma |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-233) and index |
Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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English |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL pda |
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Print version record |
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Traditional medicine -- Virginia
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Traditional medicine -- North Carolina
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Medicine, Traditional
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PSYCHOLOGY -- Psychotherapy -- General.
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HEALTH & FITNESS -- Herbal Medications.
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Traditional medicine
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Volksmedizin
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Aufsatzsammlung
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Kruiden.
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Therapieën.
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Magie.
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Alternatieve geneeskunde.
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Médecine populaire -- États-Unis -- Virginie.
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Médecine populaire -- États-Unis -- Caroline du Nord.
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Ethnomédecine -- États-Unis -- Virginie.
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Ethnomédecine -- États-Unis -- Caroline du Nord.
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SUBJECT |
North Carolina. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79007042
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North Carolina |
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Virginia |
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North Carolina
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Virginia
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North Carolina
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Virginia
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Form |
Electronic book
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Author |
Kirkland, James, 1942- editor.
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Mathews, Holly F., editor
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Sullivan, Charles, editor
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Baldwin, Karen, editor
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ISBN |
9780822382584 |
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082238258X |
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1282919784 |
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9781282919785 |
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9786612919787 |
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6612919787 |
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