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Healing Roots: Anthropology in Life and Medicine

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Umhlonyane, also known as Artemisia 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 people's 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 ...

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Healing Roots: Anthropology in Life and Medicine 2018, Berghahn Books, New York, NY

ISBN-13: 9781789200591

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Healing Roots: Anthropology in Life and Medicine 2015, Berghahn Books, Oxford

ISBN-13: 9781782385547

Hardcover