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Healing traditions : African medicine, cultural exchange, and competition in South Africa, 1820-1948
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- Creator
- Karen E. Flint
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- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press ; Scottsville, South Africa : University of KwaZulu-Natal Press, 2008
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- xiv, 274 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- ISBNs
- 0821418505, 0821418491, 9781869141707, 1869141709, 9780821418499, 082144302X, 9780821418505, 9780821443026
- OCLC
- ocn742512921, ocn230198772
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-270) and index.
- Healing the body : disease, knowledge, and medical practices in the Zulu kingdom -- Healing the body politic : muthi, healers, and nation building in the Zulu kingdom -- Early African-white encounters : healers, witchcraft, and colonial rule, 1830/91 -- Competition, race, and professionalization : African healers and white medical practitioners, 1891/1948 -- African-Indian encounters and their influence on African therapeutics, 1860/1948
Subjects
- Medicine -- South Africa -- History.
- Traditional medicine -- South Africa -- History.
- Medicine, African Traditional -- history -- South Africa.
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- Colonialism -- history -- South Africa.
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- History, 19th Century -- South Africa.
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- History, 20th Century -- South Africa.
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- Religious Missions -- history -- South Africa.
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- Witchcraft -- history -- South Africa.
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