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Author : Dennis M. Warren,Layi Egunjobi,Bolanle Wahaab
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Medical
ISBN : IND:30000053344564
Author : DAVID OYEBOLA MD
Publisher : Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2020-02-10
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781645155478
This book is written to provide information on various aspects of Yoruba, and, indeed, African traditional medicine. The writer's research on Yoruba traditional medicine provides the bulk of the materials in the book. The book consists of eleven chapters. Chapters 1 and 2 provide the background to the book. Chapters 3 to 10 encapsulate the different aspects of Yoruba traditional medicine such as classification of healers, methods of training of healers, methods of diagnosis and investigation of diseases, treatment of diseases, Yoruba pharmacopoeia, midwifery, bone-setting, and other forms of traditional surgery. Chapter 11 describes the meeting point of hospitals and healers; this meeting point, in the opinion of the author, should be how best to serve the interests of the patients. The best form of relationship that should exist between hospitals and healers is also discussed. The two systems of medicine exist side by side in Nigeria and most African countries yet remain functionally unrelated in any intentional sense. It is argued that no medical system is perfect and no single care system has all the answers to all human health and related problems. Each of the two systems has its strong and weak points. The often talked-about integration of the two systems has potential pitfalls and may be undesirable. The book concludes that the best form of relationship may well be one of genuine cooperation and mutual respect between the two systems since this will lead, in the ultimate, to advancement of medical knowledge and overall improvement of patient care. All levels of government in Nigeria have decisive roles to play in achieving this mutually beneficial cooperation of the two systems.
Author : Glauco Sanga,Gherardo Ortalli
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2004-11
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1571818235
Numerous scholars, in particular anthropologists, historians, economists, linguists, and biologists, have, over the last few years, studied forms of knowledge and use of nature, and of the ways nature can be protected and conserved. Some of the most prominent scholars have come together in this volume to reflect on what has been achieved so far, to compare the work carried out in the past, to discuss the problems that have emerged from different research projects, and to map out the way forward.
Author : Russell Kaschula
Publisher : New Africa Books
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1919876073
Throughout Africa, oral literature is flourishing, though it is perceived by some as anachronistic to the modern world. This work refutes this idea in its entirety by presenting 22 chapters, which firmly place the study of oral literature within contemporary African existence. The study analyzes how oral literature relates to media, music, technology, text, gender, religion, power, politics and globalization.
Author : Aribidesi Usman,Toyin Falola
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 519 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2019-07-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107064607
A rich and accessible account of Yoruba history, society and culture from the pre-colonial period to the present.
Author : Fikret Berkes,Carl Folke,Johan Colding
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2000-04-13
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0521785626
Investigates how management systems and their dynamics can improve stewardship of selected ecosystems.
Author : Carol R. Ember,Melvin Ember
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 1103 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2003-12-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780306477546
Medical practitioners and the ordinary citizen are becoming more aware that we need to understand cultural variation in medical belief and practice. The more we know how health and disease are managed in different cultures, the more we can recognize what is "culture bound" in our own medical belief and practice. The Encyclopedia of Medical Anthropology is unique because it is the first reference work to describe the cultural practices relevant to health in the world's cultures and to provide an overview of important topics in medical anthropology. No other single reference work comes close to marching the depth and breadth of information on the varying cultural background of health and illness around the world. More than 100 experts - anthropologists and other social scientists - have contributed their firsthand experience of medical cultures from around the world.
Author : S. A. Osunwole,A. Toriola Oyewo
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Social Science
ISBN : IND:30000065127163
Author : Obafemi Jegede
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Divination
ISBN : IND:30000135091001
Author : Saade, Marta Vides,Halder, Debarati
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2022-10-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781668441145
Foundational principles of the contemporary practices of both restorative justice and the concept of therapeutic jurisprudence often import organic and indigenous practices of conflict resolution to resolve insufficiencies and even to explain fundamental ideas. Too often, the indiscriminate use of such practices does not mind the gap between the defining principles, the guiding principles, or the limiting principles that challenge particular features of practical applications. Minding the Gap Between Restorative Justice, Therapeutic Jurisprudence, and Global Indigenous Wisdom gives an authentic voice to practitioners and theorists whose work originates in organic or indigenous conflict resolution. It raises awareness of the diversity of approaches to dispute resolution from the deep perspective of their foundations and understands the challenges that arise in the practical application of restorative justice and therapeutic jurisprudence models when using principles disconnected from their foundation. It further offers ways to bridge the gap so that it is no longer an obstacle but a source of transformation. Covering topics such as justice praxes, indigenous conflict resolution, and global indigenous wisdom, this premier reference source is a dynamic resource for HR managers, lawyers, government officials, mediators, counselors, students and faculty of higher education, librarians, researchers, and academicians.
Author : John S. Mbiti
Publisher : Heinemann
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0435895915
"African Religions and Philosophy" is a systematic study of the attitudes of mind and belief that have evolved in the many societies of Africa. In this second edition, Dr Mbiti has updated his material to include the involvement of women in religion, and the potential unity to be found in what was once thought to be a mass of quite separate religions. Mbiti adds a new dimension to the understanding of the history, thinking, and life throughout the African continent. Religion is approached from an African point of view but is as accessible to readers who belong to non-African societies as it is to those who have grown up in African nations. Since its first publication, this book has become acknowledged as the standard work in the field of study, and it is essential reading for anyone concerned with African religion, history, philosophy, anthropology or general African studies.
Author : Mary Adekson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2004-01-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781135942212
This work examines the counseling approaches and techniques used by Yoruba traditional healers of Nigeria. It also describes the functions performed by Yoruba traditional healers when they work within the Yoruba cultural milieu. The information elicited from Yoruba traditional healers through videotape and interviews was analyzed by a Nigerian woma
Author : Nike Lawal,Matthew N. O. Sadiku,P. Adelumo Dopamu
Publisher : Africa Research and Publications
Page : 730 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Philosophy, Yoruba
ISBN : UCSC:32106018575693
With a population of about thirty million, the Yoruba people constitute one of the largest single ethnic groups in sub-Saharan Africa. They are internationally acclaimed for their high art, complex system of government, religion, and philosophy. This multi-authored book written by distinguished scholars like Ayo Bamgbose, Toyin Falola, Stephen Akintoye, Omofolabo Soyinka-Ajayi, Emmanuel Babatunde, H.O. Danmole, Akinbiyi Akinlabi, and Agbo Folarin, is the first of its kind to cover all the important topics and issues in Yoruba culture. Who were the Yoruba? Where did they come from? What is Yoruba society like? What is the role of women in the society? What is the nature of their art forms? What is Yoruba philosophy? These questions and many more are answered in this significant book. (Back cover).
Author : Margaret Thompson Drewal
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1992-03-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9780253112736
Yoruba peoples of southwestern Nigeria conceive of rituals as journeys -- sometimes actual, sometimes virtual. Performed as a parade or a procession, a pilgrimage, a masking display, or possession trance, the journey evokes the reflexive, progressive, transformative experience of ritual participation. Yoruba Ritual is an original and provocative study of these practices. Using a performance paradigm, Margaret Thompson Drewal forges a new theoretical and methodological approach to the study of ritual that is thoroughly grounded in close analysis of the thoughts and actions of the participants. Challenging traditional notions of ritual as rigid, stereotypic, and invariant, Drewal reveals ritual to be progressive, transformative, generative, and reflexive and replete with simultaneity, multifocality, contingency, indeterminacy, and intertextuality. Throughout the book prominence is given to the intentionality of actors as knowledgeable agents who transform ritual itself through play and improvisation. Integral to the narrative are interpolations about performances and their meanings by Kolawole Ositola, a scholar of Yoruba oral tradition, ritual practitioner, diviner, and master performer. Rich descriptions of rituals relating to birth, death, reincarnation, divination, and constructions of gender are rendered all the more vivid by a generous selection of field photos of actual performances.
Author : Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard,Eva Gillies
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9780198740292
An abridged version of the 1937 an-thropological study of the Azande of the southern Sudan, the theoretical insights of which have proven increasingly influential among both anthropologists and others
