Southern Incantations

Author : Kay K. Moss
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2021-12-23
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781643362915

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Southern Folk Medicine, 1750-1820 by Kay K. Moss Pdf

Explores homespun remedies and medicinal herbs Southern Folk Medicine, 1750-1820 explores methods of cure during a time when the South relied more heavily on homespun remedies than on professionally prescribed treatments. Bringing to light several previously unpublished primary sources, Kay K. Moss inventories the medical ingredients and practices adopted by physicians, herb women, yeoman farmers, plantation mistresses, merchants, tradesmen, preachers, and quacks alike. Moss shows how families passed down cures as heirlooms, how remedies crossed cultural and ethnic boundaries, and how domestic healers compounded native herbs and plants with exotic ingredients. Moss assembles her picture of domestic medical practice largely from an analysis of twelve commonplace books—or repositories of information, medical and otherwise—kept by eighteenth- and nineteenth-century southerners. She reveals that men and women of all social classes collected medical guidance and receipts in handwritten journals. Whether well educated or unlettered, many preferred home remedies over treatment by the region's few professional physicians. Of particular interest to natural historians, an extensive guide to medicinal plants, their scientific names, and their traditional uses is also included.

Author : Loren T. Stuckenbruck,Gabriele Boccaccini
Publisher : SBL Press
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2016-09-21
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780884141181

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Enoch and the Synoptic Gospels by Loren T. Stuckenbruck,Gabriele Boccaccini Pdf

Essential research for students and scholars of Second Temple Judaism and the New Testament Since Richard Laurence published the first English translation of 1 Enoch in 1821, its importance for an understanding of early Christianity has been generally recognized. The present volume is the first book of essays contributed by international specialists in Second Temple Judaism devoted to the significance of traditions found in 1 Enoch for the interpretation of the Synoptic Gospels in the New Testament. Areas covered by the contributions include demonology, Christology, angelology, cosmology, birth narratives, forgiveness of sins, veneration, wisdom, and priestly tradition. The contributors are Joseph L. Angel, Daniel Assefa, Leslie Baynes, Gabriele Boccaccini, Kelley Coblentz Bautch, Henryk Drawnel, André Gagné, Lester L. Grabbe, Daniel M. Gurtner, Andrei A. Orlov, Anders Klostergaard Petersen, Amy E. Richter, Loren T. Stuckenbruck, Benjamin Wold, and Archie T. Wright. Features: Multiple approaches to thinking about the relationship between 1 Enoch and the Synoptic Gospels Exploration of the common socio-cultural and religious framework within which the traditions concerning Enoch and Jesus developed Articles presented at the Seventh Enoch Seminar in 2013

Author : James M. McPherson,William J. Cooper, Jr.
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2021-04-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781643362212

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Writing the Civil War by James M. McPherson,William J. Cooper, Jr. Pdf

Studies diverse topics on the writing of Civil War history No event has transformed the United States more fundamentally—or been studied more exhaustively—than the Civil War. In Writing the Civil War, fourteen distinguished historians present a wide-ranging examination of the vast effort to chronicle the conflict—an undertaking that began with the remembrances of Civil War veterans and has become an increasingly prolific field of scholarship. Covering topics from battlefield operations to the impact of race and gender, this volume is an informative guide through the labyrinth of Civil War literature. The contributors provide authoritative and interpretive evaluations of the study and explication of the struggle that has been called the American Iliad. The first four essays consider military history: Joseph Thomas Glatthaar writes on battlefield tactics, Gary W. Gallagher on Union strategy, Emory M. Thomas on Confederate strategy, and Reid Mitchell on soldiers. In essays that focus on political concerns, Mark E. Neely, Jr. links the military and political with his examination of presidential leadership, while Michael F. Holt surveys the study of Union politics, and George C. Rable examines the work on Confederate politics. Michael Les Benedict bridges political and societal concerns in his discussion of constitutional questions; Phillip Shaw Paludan and james L. roark confront the broad themes of economics and society in the North and South; and Drew Gilpin Faust and Peter Kolchin evaluate the importance of gender, slavery, and race relations. Writing the Civil War demonstrates the richness and diversity of Civil War scholarship and identifies topics yet to be explored. Noting a surprising dearth of scholarship in several area, the essays point to new directions in the quest to understand the complexities of the most momentous event in American history.

Author : Donald Harper
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136172441

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Early Chinese Medical Literature by Donald Harper Pdf

First published in 1998. This study uses the Mawangdui Medical Manuscripts to form a basis for information about early Chinese medical literature. Since the 1970S there has been a succession of manuscript discoveries in late-fourth to second century B.C. tombs in several regions of China, the provinces of Hubei and Hunan being particularly fertile ground for manuscripts. The medical Mawangdui manuscripts are part of a large cache of manuscripts discovered in 1973 in Mawangdui tomb 3, situated in the north-eastern part of the city of Changsha, Hunan.

Author : Edgar Thurston
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Dravidians
ISBN : 9781465584625

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Omens and Superstitions of Southern India by Edgar Thurston Pdf

Author : Library of Congress,Library of Congress. Office for Subject Cataloging Policy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1636 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Subject headings, Library of Congress
ISBN : MINN:30000009886288

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Library of Congress Subject Headings by Library of Congress,Library of Congress. Office for Subject Cataloging Policy Pdf

Author : Richard von Glahn,University Richard Von Glahn
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2004-04-20
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780520234086

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The Sinister Way by Richard von Glahn,University Richard Von Glahn Pdf

Annotation A survey of Chinese religion from 1000 BC to the beginning of the 20th century, as well as a study of the ambiguitues of divine power in Chinese religion.

Author : Walter George Ivens
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 598 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1927
Category : Ethnology
ISBN : UOM:39015021578417

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Melanesians of the South-East Solomon Islands by Walter George Ivens Pdf

Author : Library of Congress. Cataloging Policy and Support Office
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Subject headings, Library of Congress
ISBN : UOM:39015066169593

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Library of Congress Subject Headings by Library of Congress. Cataloging Policy and Support Office Pdf

Author : Shaul Shaked
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2021-10-25
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789047407843

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Officina Magica by Shaul Shaked Pdf

This book of essays deals with magical phenomena in Mesopotamian, Zoroastrian, Greek and Jewish cultures. The topics discussed include Mesopotamian magic, its impact on the Aramaic magic bowls, Jewish magical literature, magical gems, Zoroastrian omens, and methods of research.

Author : Ulrike Steinert
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2018-06-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781501504914

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Assyrian and Babylonian Scholarly Text Catalogues by Ulrike Steinert Pdf

The reconstruction of ancient Mesopotamian medical, ritual and omen compendia and their complex history is still characterised by many difficulties, debates and gaps due to fragmentary or unpublished evidence. This book offers the first complete edition of the Assur Medical Catalogue, an 8th or 7th century BCE list of therapeutic texts, which forms a core witness for the serialisation of medical compendia in the 1st millennium BCE. The volume presents detailed analyses of this and several other related catalogues of omen series and rituals, constituting the corpora of divination and healing disciplines. The contributions discuss links between catalogues and textual sources, providing new insights into the development of compendia between serialization, standardization and diversity of local traditions. Though its a novel corpus-based approach, this volume revolutionizes the current understanding of Mesopotamian medical texts and the healing disciplines of "conjurer" and "physician". The research presented here allows one to identify core text corpora for these disciplines, as well as areas of exchange and borrowings between them.

Author : Paul Delnero
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 793 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2020-08-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781501512940

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How To Do Things With Tears by Paul Delnero Pdf

In contrast to other traditions, cultic laments in Mesopotamia were not performed in response to a tragic event, such as a death or a disaster, but instead as a preemptive ritual to avert possible catastrophes. Mesopotamian laments provide a unique insight into the relationship between humankind and the gods, and their study sheds light on the nature of collective rituals within a crosscultural context. Cultic laments were performed in Mesopotamia for nearly 3000 years. This book provides a comprehensive overview of this important ritual practice in the early 2nd millennium BCE, the period during which Sumerian laments were first put in writing. It also includes a new translation and critical edition of Uruamairabi (‘That city, which has been plundered’), one of the most widely performed compositions of its genre.

Author : Joseph M. Wilson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1350 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1859
Category : Electronic
ISBN : COLUMBIA:50121786

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The Presbyterian Historical Almanac, and Annual Remembrancer of the Church for 1858[-1868]. by Joseph M. Wilson Pdf

Author : John C. Swanson
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2017-03-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9780822981992

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Tangible Belonging by John C. Swanson Pdf

Tangible Belonging presents a compelling historical and ethnographic study of the German speakers in Hungary, from the late nineteenth to the late twentieth century. Through this tumultuous period in European history, the Hungarian-German leadership tried to organize German-speaking villagers, Hungary tried to integrate (and later expel) them, and Germany courted them. The German speakers themselves, however, kept negotiating and renegotiating their own idiosyncratic sense of what it meant to be German. John C. Swanson’s work looks deeply into the enduring sense of tangible belonging that characterized Germanness from the perspective of rural dwellers, as well as the broader phenomenon of “minority making” in twentieth-century Europe. The chapters reveal the experiences of Hungarian Germans through the First World War and the subsequent dissolution of Austria-Hungary; the treatment of the German minority in the newly independent Hungarian Kingdom; the rise of the racial Volksdeutsche movement and Nazi influence before and during the Second World War; the immediate aftermath of the war and the expulsions; the suppression of German identity in Hungary during the Cold War; and the fall of Communism and reinstatement of minority rights in 1993. Throughout, Swanson offers colorful oral histories from residents of the rural Swabian villages to supplement his extensive archival research. As he shows, the definition of being a German in Hungary varies over time and according to individual interpretation, and does not delineate a single national identity. What it meant to be German was continually in flux. In Swanson’s broader perspective, defining German identity is ultimately a complex act of cognition reinforced by the tangible environment of objects, activities, and beings. As such, it endures in individual and collective mentalities despite the vicissitudes of time, history, language, and politics.

Author : Daliah Bawanypeck,Annette Imhausen
Publisher : Ugarit-Verlag
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2015-03-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9783868351316

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Traditions of Written Knowledge in Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia by Daliah Bawanypeck,Annette Imhausen Pdf

This volume is addressed to historians of science, Egyptologists and Assyriologists dealing with the history of early science. It presents the proceedings of two workshops held at the Goethe-University Frankfurt/Main, focusing on traditions of systematic knowledge in Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia. Assuming that written knowledge was preserved and transmitted intentionally in both cultures, paradigms of knowledge can be reflected by the texts. Although the available source material is subject to their find spots and the vagaries of preservation, by asking specific questions the sources can provide insights into the work of the ancient scholars. The text corpora presented in this volume come from the fields of medicine, magic and ritual, astronomy, mathematics and law. The authors use the sources to provide overviews of the discussed knowledge areas and to discuss certain aspects of the traditions in more detail.