Healing Roots - Laplante, Julie
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Detailed study, compiled by an accomplished anthropological scholar, of one of the oldest indigenous medicines in South Africa. Laplante situates African and Western knowledge systems against one another. The author follows the journey of the plant on its transition to the controlled environments of Western medicine. Offers an anthropologocal study of both the plant and the people who place their hopes in it.

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Detailed study, compiled by an accomplished anthropological scholar, of one of the oldest indigenous medicines in South Africa. Laplante situates African and Western knowledge systems against one another. The author follows the journey of the plant on its transition to the controlled environments of Western medicine. Offers an anthropologocal study of both the plant and the people who place their hopes in it.
Autorenporträt
Julie Laplante is Associate Professor of Anthropology in the School of Sociological and Anthropological Studies at the University of Ottawa. Senior research fellow at the Max Planck Institute für etnologische forschung (2006-2010), she has published in numerous journals and is the author of Pouvoir Guérir. Médecines autochtones et humanitaires ( Power/Ability to Heal. Indigenous and humanitarian medicine).