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Flint, Karen Elizabeth.

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Negotiating a hybrid medical culture: African healers in southeastern Africa from the 1820s to the 1940s.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Negotiating a hybrid medical culture: African healers in southeastern Africa from the 1820s to the 1940s./
Author:	Flint, Karen Elizabeth.
Description:	256 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 62-08, Section: A, page: 2852.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International62-08A.
Subject:	History, African. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3024032
ISBN:	0493356304

Negotiating a hybrid medical culture: African healers in southeastern Africa from the 1820s to the 1940s.
Flint, Karen Elizabeth.

Negotiating a hybrid medical culture: African healers in southeastern Africa from the 1820s to the 1940s. - 256 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 62-08, Section: A, page: 2852.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Los Angeles, 2001.

This dissertation focuses on medicine as a site of power, contestation, and cultural exchange. Between the 1820s and 1940s, African healers transformed themselves from politically powerful women and men who threatened to undermine colonial rule and law into successful venture capitalists who competed for turf and patients with biomedical doctors and pharmacists in the major urban areas of Natal, South Africa. Situated at the intersection of cultural, social, and medical history, this study documents the transformation of African healers and therapeutics during a Period when Africans encountered mounting social, political and economic pressures imposed by European colonialism. More specifically, it is located in the province now known as KwaZulu-Natal from the 1820s to the 1940s, an area with three medical traditions—African, European, and Indian—and unique for its licensing of African herbalists. The 1820s mark the early years of interaction between African healers and white traders, while the 1940s signify the height and decline of African healing associations and their struggle for legal recognition earlier this century.

ISBN: 0493356304Subjects--Topical Terms:

1017555
History, African.

Negotiating a hybrid medical culture: African healers in southeastern Africa from the 1820s to the 1940s.
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