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Raising the Dust : Tracking Traditional Medicine in the South of Malawi / by Theresa Jones.

9789811084201
9811084203
9789811084195 (hardback ; alk. paper)
981108419X (hardback ; alk. paper)

Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.

English

1 online resource (XIII, 365 pages 16 illustrations) : online resource

10.1007/978-981-10-8420-1 doi

GN296-GN296.5

306.461

Raising the Dust explores the relationship between human and ecological health through the lens of African traditional medicine, as practiced in the south of Malawi. The book employs an ethnographic methodology using the primary methods of semi-structured interviews and participant observation. The fieldwork for the research was conducted in the Mulanje Mountain Biosphere and the findings are presented as a narrative exploration of insider and outsider positions, in this context. The conceptual framework for the book encompasses a broad range of ecological ideas, focussing mainly on traditional ecological knowledge and radical ecology. The holistic theoretical framework for the book emerges in a grounded way from out of the fieldwork experience. The book is written in plain language and will appeal to anyone interested in holistic health outlooks, particularly cross-cultural health and wellbeing narratives.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 335-361) and index.

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