Healing Roots : : Anthropology in Life and Medicine / / Julie Laplante.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
• VerfasserIn: Laplante, Julie,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2015]; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Series: Epistemologies of Healing ; 15
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (302 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Illustrations --; Acknowledgements --; Abbreviations --; Introduction Tracing the Preclinical Trial of an Indigenous Plant --; Chapter 1 Knowing Umhlonyane/ Artemisia afra --; Chapter 2 Engaging in Medicine --; Chapter 3 Tracing Medicine Wayfaring --; Chapter 4 Imagining Indigeneity --; Chapter 5 Healing the Nation --; Chapter 6 Dreams, Ancestors and Sound Healing --; Chapter 7 Weaving Molecules with Life --; Conclusion Imagining the Clinical Trial --; References --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781782385554; 9783110998238
• DOI: 10.1515/9781782385554
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Julie Laplante.

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 medicine. Laplante follows umhlonyane on its trails and trials of becoming a biopharmaceutical — from the “open air” to controlled environments — learning from the plant and from the people who use it with hopes in healing.