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437 entries match Traditional & Indigenous [G02.403.700]
2012
#9302
Ethnobotany of the Kondh, Poraja, Gadaba and Bonda of the Koraput region of Odisha, India.
"This volume discusses the history and importance of ethnobotany with specific reference to four tribal communities of Odisha, India. It begins with an account of the nature of the tribes involved in the study. Based …
2012
#9977
The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture: Volume 22: Science and medicine. Edited by James G. Thomas, Jr. & Charles Reagan Wilson.
2013
#7034
Chinese medicine and healing. An illustrated history.
Contributions from 53 scholars, edited by Hinrichs and Barnes.
2013
#7926
A handbook of African traditional healing approaches & research practices. Edited by Njoki Wane and Erica Neeganagwedgin.
2014
#7837
Border medicine: A transcultural history of Mexican American curanderismo.
2014
#9912
Handbook of African medicinal plants. Second edition.
"With over 50,000 distinct species in sub-Saharan Africa alone, the African continent is endowed with an enormous wealth of plant resources. While more than 25 percent of known species have been used for several centu…
2014
#12722
Healing traditions of the Northwestern Himalayas.
"This book discusses the perception of disease, healing concepts and the evolution of traditional systems of healing in the Himalayas of Himachal Pradesh, India. The chapters cover a diverse range issues: people and k…
2014
#13213
Ethnobotany of tuberculosis in Laos.
2014
#14329
Chinese medicinal identification: An illustrated approach.
"For centuries, pharmacists and clinicians have relied on the traditional method of macroscopic identification to assess the quality and authenticity of medicinal materials. Macroscopic identification uses the naked s…
2014
#14355
The making of modern Chinese medicine, 1850-1960.
2015
#7504
Cherokee medicine, colonial germs: An indigenous nation’s fight against smallpox, 1518–1824.
2015
#8516
Healing magic and evil demons: Canonical Udug-Hul incantations. (Die Babylonisch-assyrische Texten und Untersuchungen, Vol. 8.)
2015
#8790
Indigenous medicine among the Bedouin in the Middle East.
2015
#9706
Science and civilisation in China: Vol. 6, biology and biological technology, Part 4, traditional botany: An ethnobotanical approach.
2015
#10275
A Cree healer and his medicine bundle: Revelations of indigenous wisdom: Healing plants, practices, and stories.
"With the rise of urban living and the digital age, many North American healers are recognizing that traditional medicinal knowledge must be recorded before being lost with its elders. A Cree Healer and His Medicine B…
2015
#10341
Beyond germs: Native depopulation in North America. Edited by Catherine M. Cameron, Paul Kelton, and Alan C. Swedlund.
This book "challenges the “virgin soil” hypothesis that was used for decades to explain the decimation of the indigenous people of North America. This hypothesis argues that the massive depopulation of the New World w…
2015
#11196
The art of medicine in early China: The ancient and medieval origins of a modern archive.
2016
#8338
Huang Di Ne Jing Ling Shu. The ancient classic on needle therapy. The complete Chinese text with annotated English translation.
2016
#8339
Nan Jing: The classic of difficult issues. Second edition, revised and updated.
2016
#12312
Dreams, healing, and medicine in Greece: From antiquity to the present. Edited by Steven M. Obewrhelman.
2016
#12727
Doctoring traditions: Ayurveda, small technologies, and braided sciences.
"Like many of the traditional medicines of South Asia, Ayurvedic practice transformed dramatically in the later nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. With Doctoring Tradition, Projit Bihari Mukharji offers a close…
2016
#12803
Ethnobotany of Mexico: Interactions of people and plants in Mesoamerica. Edited by Rafael Lira, Alejandro Casas, José Blancas.
2017
#9862
Secret cures of slaves: People, plants, and medicine in the eighteenth-century Atlantic world.
"Massive mortality among enslaved Africans and European planters, soldiers, and sailors fueled the search for new healing techniques. Amerindian, African, and European knowledges competed to cure diseases emerging fro…
2017
#10665
The experiential Caribbean: Creating knowledge and healing in the early modern Atlantic.
"Opening a window on a dynamic realm far beyond imperial courts, anatomical theaters, and learned societies, Pablo F. Gómez examines the strategies that Caribbean people used to create authoritative, experientially ba…
2017
#12096
American Indian medicine ways: Spiritual power, prophets, and healing. Edited by Clifford E. Trafzer.
"Indigenous people of wisdom have offered prayers of power, protection, and healing since the dawn of time. From Wovoka, the Ghost Dance prophet, to contemporary healer Kenneth Coosewoon, medicine people have called o…
2018
#9711
Médecins et magiciens á la cour du pharaon. Une étude du papyrus médical Louvre E 32847.
Transcription, French translation, and study of this papyrus dating from the reign of Amenophis II (1424-1398 BCE). The papyrus, written for teaching purposes, concerns diagnosis of pathology in the elderly, tumors (i…
2018
#9792
The patent medicines industry in Georgian England: Constructing the market by the potency of print.
2018
#10533
Imagining Chinese medicine. Edited by Vivienne Lo and Penelope .
Finely produced and illustrated collection, with many plates in color, of 36 scholarly essays on the widest range of Chinese medical illustrations, including erotica.
2018
#10645
Knowledge, power, and women's reproductive health in Japan, 1690–1945.
2018
#11621
The mystery of the exploding teeth and other curiosities from the history of medicine.
Fascinating stories well told, and frequently with a great sense of humor!
2018
#12538
Mesopotamian medicine and magic. Studies in honor of Markham J. Geller. Edited by Strahil V. Panayotov and Ludek Vacin.
"The [34] contributions concentrate mainly on Mesopotamian scholarly descriptions and practices of diagnosing and healing diverse physical ailments and mental distress. The festschrift contains both critical editions …
2018
#12563
Medicine, magic and art in early modern Norway.
"This book addresses magical ideas and practices in early modern Norway. It examines a large corpus of Norwegian manuscripts from 1650-1850 commonly called Black Books which contained a mixture of recipes on medicine,…
2018
#12565
Ethnopharmaceutical knowledge in Samogita region of Lithuania: where old traditions overlap with modern medicine.
Open source from link.springer.com at this link.
2019
#11039
Medical practice in twelfth-century China. A translation of Xu Shuwei's Ninety discussion [cases] on cold damage disorders by Asaf Goldschmidt.
"An annotated translation of Xu Shuwei’s (1080–1154) collection of 90 medical case records – Ninety Discussions of Cold Damage Disorders (shanghan jiushi lun 傷寒九十論) – which was the first such collection in China. The …
2019
#12094
Fighting invisible enemies: Health and medical transitions among Southern California Indians.
"Native Americans long resisted Western medicine--but had less power to resist the threat posed by Western diseases. And so, as the Office of Indian Affairs reluctantly entered the business of health and medicine, Nat…
2021
#13271
Strong hearts and healing hands: Southern California Indians and field nurses, 1920-1950.
2021
#13794