African American Folk Healing
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Introduction -- Historical paths to healing -- Stories and cures : defining African American folk healing -- Healing, the Black body, and institutional medicine : contexts for crafting wellness -- Healing in place : from past to present -- Today's healing traditions -- Healing and hybridity in the twenty-first century -- Healing the past in the present -- Religion, spirituality, and African American folk healing -- Hoodoo, conjure, and folk healing -- Conclusion.
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PUBLISHED
New York : New York University Press, c2007.
Year Published: 2007
Description: ix, 189 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780814757314 (cloth : alk. paper)
0814757316 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780814757321 (pbk : alk. paper)
0814757324 (pbk : alk. paper)
SUBJECTS
African Americans -- Folklore.
African Americans -- Medicine.