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437 entries match Traditional & Indigenous [G02.403.700]
1992
#13344
Vine of the Soul: Medicine men, their plants and rituals in the Columbian Amazonia.
1993
#9017
Tobacco and shamanism in South America.
A comprehensive ethnography of magico-religious, medicinal, and recreational tobacco use among native South American societies, based on a survey of nearly three hundred societies.
1993
#10872
Rio Tigre and beyond: The Amazon jungle medicine of Manual Cordova-Rios
1994
#8029
Afrikanische Arzneipflanzen und Jagdgifte.
Translated into English by Aileen Porter as African ethnobotany: Poisons and drugs. Chemistry - Pharmacology - Toxicology (Chapman & Hall, 1996).
1994
#8864
Home medicine: The Newfoundland experience.
"Based on material from the Folklore Archives at Memorial University as well as other sources, Crellin's catalogue includes such topics as abortion, baldness and hair preparations, blood-letting, cancer, drunkenness, …
1994
#9298
Footprints of the forest: Ka'Apor ethnobotany- The historical ecology of plant utilization by an Amazonian people.
1994
#9744
Folk tradition and folk medicine in Scotland: The writings of David Rorie. Edited by David Buchan.
1994
#9937
Tales of a shaman's apprentice: An ethnobotanist searches for new medicines in the Amazon rain forest.
1994
#10084
The health of Native Americans: Towards a biocultural epidemiology.
1994
#10090
Secret doctors: Ethnomedicine of African Americans.
"Based on an ethnographic study of the traditional medicine of African Americans in the rural southern United States, this work concentrates on the original Louisiana Territory, with its Native and African American in…
1994
#11168
Healing traditions: Alternative medicine and the health professions.
"The popularity and practice of alternative medicine continues to expand at astonishing rates. In Healing Traditions, Bonnie Blair O'Connor considers the conflicts that arise between the values and assumptions of West…
1995
#7018
Ethnobotany: Evolution of a discipline. Edited by Richard Schultes and Siri Sylvia von Reis.
1995
#9269
Healing threads: Traditional medicines of the Highlands and Islands.
"Much of the rich store of material comes from the great legacy of medieval Gaelic manuscripts. In more recent times, papers of medical societies have shown how traditional methods and cures are still of value to mode…
1995
#9630
Deadly medicine: Indians and alcohol in early America.
1996
#7002
Encyclopedia of native American healing.
1996
#8010
Medicine and morality in Haiti: The contest for healing power.
1996
#9290
Healing with plants in the American and Mexican West.
1997
#8544
Iroquois medical botany.
"The first book to provide a guide to understanding the use of herbal medicines in traditional Iroquois culture. The world view of the Iroquois League or Confederacy - the Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, Seneca, and…
1997
#9344
Magie, médecine et divination chez les Celtes.
1997
#9364
The illustrated Yellow Emperor's canon of medicine. Compiled and illustrated by Zhou Chuncai and Han Yazhou.
Text in Chinese and English. A very accessible illustrated popularization— almost in the style of a comic book— of the Yellow Emperor's classic.
1997
#9910
Sacred leaves of Candomblé: African magic, medicine, and religion in Brazil.
"Candomblé, an African religious and healing tradition that spread to Brazil during the slave trade, relies heavily on the use of plants in its spiritual and medicinal practices. When its African adherents were forcib…
1997
#9936
Coyote medicine: Lessons from native American healing.
By a Stanford-trained MD of Cherokee descent.
1997
#14365
Early Chinese medical literature. The Mawangdui medical manuscripts. Translation and study by Donald Harper.
"Discovered in 1973, in the richest cache of ancient manuscripts ever unearthed in China, the seven medical manuscripts from Mawangdui Tomb 3 in Changsha, Hunan Province....The manuscripts were buried in 168 B.C. alon…
1998
#7143
Early Chinese medical literature. The Mawangdui medical manuscripts. Translation and Study by Donald J. Harper.
Detailed historical analysis and English translation of medical manuscripts buried with their owner in 168 BCE and unearthed in Mawangdui, Hunan, in 1973, representing Chinese medical traditions from the 4th to 2nd ce…
1998
#7869
Native American ethnobotany.
Considered the definitive book on the subject documenting over 4,000 plants and roughly 44,000 uses, including medicinal usage.
1998
#8336
The divine farmer's materia medica: A translation of the Shen Nong Ben Cao Jing by Yang Shou-zhong.
1998
#9296
Warts: Summary of Wart-cure survey for the Folklore Society.
1998
#9642
"Every man his own doctor." Popular medicine in early America: An exhibition drawn from the collections of Charles E. Rosenberg, William H. Helfand and the Library Company of Philadelphia.
1998
#12572
Black folk medicine: The therapeutic significance of faith and trust. Edited by Wilbur H. Watson.
1998
#12779
Healers and healing in early modern Europe.
"...explores the wide range of healers and forms of healing in the southern half of the Italian peninsula that was the kingdom of Naples between 1600 and 1800. By adopting the point of view of the sick people themselv…
1998
#12806
The roots of Ayurveda.
Readings in English translation, with commentaries, from classical medical texts.
1999
#7379
From Mesmer to Freud: Magnetic sleep and the roots of psychological healing.
1999
#8337
Shāng Hán Lùn: On cold damage. Translation and commentaries by Craig Mitchell, Chung-Ching Chang, and Feng Ye.
1999
#9277
Memory, wisdom and healing: The history of domestic plant medicine.
1999
#9292
Medicinal flora of the Alaska natives. A compilation of knowledge from literary sources of Aleut, Alutiiq, Athabascan, Eyak, Haida, Inupiat, Tlingit, Tsimshian, and Yupik traditional healing methods using plants.
Digital facsimile from uaa.alaska.edu at this link.
1999
#9745
Southern folk medicine 1750-1820.
1999
#10093
Essential subtleties on the silver sea: The Yin-Hai Jing-Wei: A Chinese classic on ophthalmology.
Provides detailed descriptions of the etiology, symptomatology, and therapy of every eye disease known to fifteenth-century Chinese practitioners. The translators' introduction also provides the first in-depth analysi…
2000
#7045
Medicine in China. Historical artifacts and images.
2000
#7976
A population history of the United States. Edited by Michael R. Haines and Richard H. Steckel.
From Pre-Columbian times to the present.
2000
#8030
African traditional medicine: A dictionary of plant use and applications with supplement: Search system for diseases.
2000
#9322
Biodiversity and native America. Edited by Paul E. Minnis and Wayne J. Elisens.
2000
#9743
Early English charms, plant lore, and healing.
2000
#11184
Acupuncture, expertise and cross-cultural medicine.
2000
#13428
Heil und Heilung: Geschichte der Laienheilkundigen und Struktur antimodernistischer Weltanschauungen in Kaiserreich und Weimarer Republik am Beispiel von Eugen Wenz (1856-1945).
2001
#9280
Healing plants: Medicine of the Florida Seminole Indians.
2001
#9408
The people's doctors: Samuel Thomson and the American Botanical Movement 1790-1860.
"Samuel Thomson, born in New Hampshire in 1769 to an illiterate farming family, had no formal education, but he learned the elements of botanical medicine from a "root doctor," who he met in his youth. Thomson sought …
2001
#10193
Medicine that Walks: Disease, medicine, and Canadian Plains native people, 1880-1940.
"... Lux takes issue with the 'biological invasion' theory of the impact of disease on Plains Aboriginal people. She challenges the view that Aboriginal medicine was helpless to deal with the diseases brought by Europ…
2001
#12092
Medicine ways: Disease, health and survival among native Americans. Edited by Clifford E. Trafzer and Diane E. Weiner.
2001
#12129
The tale of healer Miguel Perdomo Neira: Medicine, ideologies, and power in the nineteenth-century Andes.
2001
#13710