Introduction. Histories of healing: Past and present medical practices in Africa and the Diaspora

Journal of Southern African Studies

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 707-714

  Schumaker, Lyn ^a   Jeater, Diana ^a   Luedke, Tracy ^a  

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EID: 36949035824     PISSN: 03057070     EISSN: 14653893     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03057070701646761     Document Type: Editorial

References (5)

1. 'Approaches for Recovering the History of Indigenous Healing in Africa' was organised by Anne Digby and Helen Sweet, 1999, at Oxford Brookes University, and funded by the Wellcome Trust; 'Re-visiting the History of Indigenous Healing in Africa', was organised by Lyn Schumaker and Maureen Malowany, 2002, at the Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine, Oxford, and funded by the Wellcome Trust and the Journal of Southern African Studies.
2. This conference was organised by Lyn Schumaker, Pratik Chakrabarty, Helen Sweet and Margaret Jones, at the Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine, Oxford, and funded by the Wellcome Trust and the Journal of Southern African Studies.
3. Flint's article was published as 'Indian-African Encounters: Polyculturalism and African Therapeutics in Natal, South Africa, 1886-1950s', JSAS, 32,2 (2006), pp. 367-85.
4. See T.O. Ranger, 'Scotland Yard in the Bush: Medicine Murders, Child Witches and the Construction of the Occult: A Literature Review', Africa: The Journal of the International African Institute, 77, 2 (2007), pp. 272-83.
5. H.L. Moore, 'The Changing Nature of Anthropological Knowledge: An Introduction', in H.L. Moore, (ed.), The Future of Anthropological Knowledge (Routledge, London and New York, 1996), p. 3.