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11 entries match Traditional & Indigenous [G02.403.700] · Americas (non-U.S.) [Z01.107] · Professions & Education [M01 / N02]
2015 CE
#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…
1972 CE
#9021
A medicine-man's implements and plants in a Tiahuanacoid tomb in highland Bolivia, (Etnologiska studier, 32). Edited by Henry Wassén.
Tiwanaku (Tiahuanaco or Tiahuanacu) is a Pre-Columbian archaeological site in western Bolivia. The first reference to the site in modern history was recorded by Spanish conquistador Pedro Cieza de León, who cam…
1994 CE
#8864
Home medicine: The Newfoundland experience.
"Based on material from the Folklore Archives at Memorial University as well as other sources, Crellin's catalogue includes such topics as abortion, baldness and hair preparations, blood-letting, cancer, drunkenness, …
2004 CE
#9899
Jamaican folk medicine: A source of healing.
1958 CE
#10853
Medicine-men on the North Pacific Coast.
1988 CE
#8791
Passage of darkness: The Ethnobiology of the Haitian zombie.
1908 CE
#6455.1
Physiological and medical observations among the Indians of Southwestern United States and Northern Mexico.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1997 CE
#9910
Sacred leaves of Candomblé: African magic, medicine, and religion in Brazil.
"Candomblé, an African religious and healing tradition that spread to Brazil during the slave trade, relies heavily on the use of plants in its spiritual and medicinal practices. When its African adherents were…
1994 CE
#10090
Secret doctors: Ethnomedicine of African Americans.
"Based on an ethnographic study of the traditional medicine of African Americans in the rural southern United States, this work concentrates on the original Louisiana Territory, with its Native and African American in…
1994 CE
#10084
The health of Native Americans: Towards a biocultural epidemiology.
1993 CE
#9017
Tobacco and shamanism in South America.
A comprehensive ethnography of magico-religious, medicinal, and recreational tobacco use among native South American societies, based on a survey of nearly three hundred societies.