Title African American folk healing / Stephanie Y. Mitchem

Published New York : New York University Press, ©2007

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 189 pages) : illustrations Contents Introduction -- Historical paths to healing -- Stories and cures : defining African American folk healing -- Healing, the Black body, and institutional medicine : contexts for crafting wellness -- Healing in place : from past to present -- Today's healing traditions -- Healing and hybridity in the twenty-first century -- Healing the past in the present -- Religion, spirituality, and African American folk healing -- Hoodoo, conjure, and folk healing -- Conclusion Summary Cure a nosebleed by holding a silver quarter on the back of the neck. Treat an earache with sweet oil drops. Wear plant roots to keep from catching colds. Within many African American families, these kinds of practices continue today, woven into the fabric of black culture, often communicated through women. Such folk practices shape the concepts about healing that are diffused throughout African American communities and are expressed in myriad ways, from faith healing to making a mojo. Stephanie Y. Mitchem presents a fascinating study of African American healing. She sheds light on a variety of folk practices and traces their development from the time of slavery through the Great Migrations. She explores how they have continued into the present and their relationship with alternative medicines. Through conversations with black Americans, she demonstrates how herbs, charms, and rituals continue folk healing performances. Mitchem shows that these practices are not simply about healing; they are linked to expressions of faith, delineating aspects of a holistic epistemology and pointing to disjunctures between African American views of wellness and illness and those of the culture of institutional medicine Analysis African American Mitchem about aspects between culture delineating disjunctures epistemology expressions faith healing holistic illness institutional linked medicine pointing practices shows simply that these they those views wellness Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-186) and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL Print version record digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Subject African Americans -- Folklore. African Americans -- Medicine African Americans. Spiritual healing. Folklore. Black or African American Folklore Spiritual Therapies Medicine, Traditional Faith Healing African American. folklore (culture-related concept) SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Folklore & Mythology. Spiritual healing African Americans African Americans -- Medicine Volksmedizin SUBJECT United States https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D014481 Subject Schwärze USA Genre/Form Folklore Folklore. Form Electronic book ISBN 9781435607361 1435607368 9780814759622 0814759629

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