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African American folk healing

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  • ISBN: 0814757324
  • ISBN: 9780814757321
  • ISBN: 0814757316
  • ISBN: 9780814757314
  • ISBN: 1435607368
  • ISBN: 9781435607361
  • Physical Description: 1 online resource (ix, 189 pages) : illustrations
    remote
    electronic resource
  • Publisher: New York : New York University Press, ©2007.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-186) and index.
Formatted Contents Note: Introduction -- Historical paths to healing -- Stories and cures : defining African American folk healing -- Healing, the Black body, and institutional medicine : contexts for crafting wellness -- Healing in place : from past to present -- Today's healing traditions -- Healing and hybridity in the twenty-first century -- Healing the past in the present -- Religion, spirituality, and African American folk healing -- Hoodoo, conjure, and folk healing -- Conclusion.
Restrictions on Access Note:
Restrictions unspecified
Reproduction Note:
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010.
System Details Note:
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
Action Note:
digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve
Source of Description Note:
Print version record.
Subject: African Americans Medicine
African Americans
SOCIAL SCIENCE Folklore & Mythology
United States
Spiritual Therapies
Folklore
African Americans
Medicine, Traditional
African Americans Medicine
African Americans Folklore
Genre: Folklore.
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