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Yoruba Medicine
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Yoruba Medicine Hardcover - 1985

by Rosemary Buckley; Anthony D. Buckley


From the publisher

According to the Yoruba of Western Nigeria, most illness is caused by the activity of germs or tiny worms in the body which can be either controlled or expelled by the judicious use of herbal medicine. This book is an unusual account and analysis of a series of conversations with Yoruba
herbalists about the nature of their craft. Buckley shows that Yoruba medicinal knowledge is systematically similar to ideas found in Yoruba social life and traditional religion, and offers a paradigm for understanding Yoruba culture that plays a similar role to paradigms in western scientific
thought.

Details

  • Title Yoruba Medicine
  • Author Rosemary Buckley; Anthony D. Buckley
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Pages 320
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Oxford University Press, USA
  • Date 1985
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780198232544 / 0198232543
  • Weight 1.34 lbs (0.61 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.81 x 5.75 x 0.88 in (22.38 x 14.61 x 2.24 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Yoruba (African people) - Medicine
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 84023762
  • Dewey Decimal Code 615.899