African American Folk Healing.
Cure a nosebleed by holding a silver quarter on the back of the neck. Treat an earache with sweet oil drops. Wear plant roots to keep from catching colds. Within many African American families, these kinds of practices continue today, woven into the fabric of black culture, often communicated throug...
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| 505 | 0 | |a Acknowledgments; Introduction; I Historical Paths to Healing; 1 Stories and Cures: Defining African American Folk Healing; 2 Healing, the Black Body, and Institutional Medicine: Contexts for Crafting Wellness; 3 Healing in Place: From Past to Present; II Today's Healing Traditions; 4 Healing and Hybridity in the Twenty-First Century; 5 Healing the Past in the Present; 6 Religion, Spirituality, and African American Folk Healing; 7 Hoodoo, Conjure, and Folk Healing; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index; About the Author. | |
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