Raising the Dust Tracking Traditional Medicine in the South of Malawi /

• Main Author: Jones, Theresa (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Medical anthropology.; Ethnology.; Complementary medicine.; Medical Anthropology.; Cultural Anthropology.; Complementary & Alternative Medicine.

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...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter One: Unwrapping
• Chapter Two: Methodology
• Chapter Three: Traditional Medical Practice
• Chapter Four: Women's Knowledge, Women's Work
• Chapter Five: Community Relationships
• Chapter Six: Footprints, Pedals and Pathways
• Chapter Seven: The Market
• Chapter Eight: The State of the Biosphere Reserve
• Chapter Nine: Theoretical Reflections
• Chapter Ten: Wrapping Up.