| Description |
1 online resource (199 pages) |
| Contents |
Acknowledgments; Introduction; I Historical Paths to Healing; 1 Stories and Cures: Defining African American Folk Healing; 2 Healing, the Black Body, and Institutional Medicine: Contexts for Crafting Wellness; 3 Healing in Place: From Past to Present; II Today's Healing Traditions; 4 Healing and Hybridity in the Twenty-First Century; 5 Healing the Past in the Present; 6 Religion, Spirituality, and African American Folk Healing; 7 Hoodoo, Conjure, and Folk Healing; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index; About the Author |
| Summary |
Cure a nosebleed by holding a silver quarter on the back of the neck. Treat an earache with sweet oil drops. Wear plant roots to keep from catching colds. Within many African American families, these kinds of practices continue today, woven into the fabric of black culture, often communicated through women. Such folk practices shape the concepts about healing that are diffused throughout African American communities and are expressed in myriad ways, from faith healing to making a mojo. Stephanie Y. Mitchem presents a fascinating study of African American healing. She sheds light on a variety o |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-186) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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African Americans -- Medicine
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African Americans -- Folklore.
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African Americans.
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Spiritual healing.
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Folklore.
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Medicine, Traditional
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Black or African American
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Folklore
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Spiritual Therapies
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Faith Healing
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African American.
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folklore (culture-related concept)
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Folklore & Mythology.
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Spiritual healing
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African Americans
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African Americans -- Medicine
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United States |
| Genre/Form |
Folklore
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780814759622 |
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0814759629 |
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