Healing traditions
Subtitle: African medicine, cultural exchange, and competition in South Africa, 1820-1948
By: Karen E. Flint.
Series: New African histories series
Publisher: Ohio University Press; University of KwaZulu-Natal Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Athens, Ohio
Language: eng
Number of pages: 274
ISBN-13: 9780821418499; 9780821418505
Subjects: Medicine -- South Africa -- History; Traditional medicine -- South Africa -- History; Medicine, African Traditional -- history -- South Africa; Colonialism -- history -- South Africa; History, 19th Century -- South Africa; History, 20th Century -- South Africa; Missions and Missionaries -- history -- South Africa; Witchcraft -- history -- South Africa
Other titles: African medicine, cultural exchange, and competition in South Africa, 1820/1948
Description: Annotation
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Healing the body : disease, knowledge, and medical practices in the Zulu kingdom; title: Healing the body politic : muthi, healers, and nation building in the Zulu kingdom; title: Early African-white encounters : healers, witchcraft, and colonial rule, 1830/91; title: Competition, race, and professionalization : African healers and white medical practitioners, 1891/1948; title: African-Indian encounters and their influence on African therapeutics, 1860/1948.