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

ISBN-13: 9789811084195 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 365 str.

Theresa Jones

Opis

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.

Spis treści

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

O autorze

Following a passionate interest in holistic health, and having a particular interest in cross-cultural onto-epistemologies, Dr Theresa Jones has worked in many different roles across the health, social welfare and education sectors. She is motivated by the need to address health as a social justice issue and as an ecological imperative.

Blurb

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.