African American folk healing
Record details
- ISBN: 0814757324
- ISBN: 9780814757321
- ISBN: 0814757316
- ISBN: 9780814757314
- ISBN: 1435607368
- ISBN: 9781435607361
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (ix, 189 pages) : illustrations
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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. |
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Genre: | Folklore. Electronic books. |