Healing Roots Anthropology in Life and Medicine [Hardcover]

Umhlonyane, also known asArtemisia 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 peoples 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 followsumhlonyaneon 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.
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Julie Laplanteis 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 f?r etnologische forschung (2006-2010), she has published in numerous journals and is the author ofPouvoir Gu?rir. M?decines autochtones et humanitaires(Power/Ability to Heal. Indigenous and humanitarianmedicine).

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Introduction:Tracing the Preclinical Trial of an Indigenous Plant

Chapter 1.KnowingUmhlonyane/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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