African Local Knowledge & Livestock Health : Diseases & Treatments in South Africa
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- ISBN: 9781782041948
- ISBN: 9781306152211
- ISBN: 178204194X
- ISBN: 1306152216
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Computer data. - Publisher: Suffolk : James Currey, 2013.
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General Note: | CatMonthString:september.21 Multi-User. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Machine generated contents note: Key contributions -- Context: livestock diseases in South African history -- Our research -- Historiography: towards medical and environmental pluralism -- Local knowledge and its limits -- Understanding the causes and symptoms of livestock diseases -- Livestock in African hands -- Conclusion -- Introduction -- Scientific understandings of ticks and efforts at control -- From state compulsion to individual responsibility -- the changing role of the state in relation to dipping -- Local knowledge about ticks and tick control -- Conclusion -- Introduction -- Old and new diseases -- Identifying infection: (a) the problem of naming -- Identifying infection: (b) contested clinical symptoms and post mortem findings -- Ideas about contagion, isolation and immunity -- Environment and the seasonality of diseases -- Conclusion -- context of transhumance -- Transhumance and disease -- demise of transhumance: processes and arguments -- Transhumance and grazing in Mbotyi -- Trekking between mountains and plains in QwaQwa -- Cattle posts in North West Province -- Conclusion -- Introduction: plants and biomedicines -- transfer of local knowledge: specialists, generations and gender -- Transmission of biomedical knowledge and medicine -- Choices of medicine: local medicines, biomedicines and other forms of treatment -- Conclusion -- Choice of plants -- Plant medicines in the North West Province -- Plant medicines in QwaQwa -- Plant medicines in the Eastern Cape -- Conclusion -- Witchcraft and the ambient supernatural -- Animal deaths and diseases associated with witchcraft -- ambient supernatural -- Umkhondo in Mpondoland -- Milking and the supernatural in Mbotyi -- Conclusion -- Introduction -- Mohato in contemporary cattle-owning communities -- Ideas about pollution and cattle disease in QwaQwa -- Practices and challenges -- Muthi to protect the kraal and the cattle -- Conclusion -- dynamics of local knowledge -- limits of local knowledge -- Recommendations for policy and practice -- Appendix 1 Recommendations -- Appendix 2 African Ideas about Diseases and Conditions Associated with the Environment -- Appendix 3 African Ideas about Supernatural Causation -- Appendix 4 Plants and Diseases -- Appendix 5 Non-Plant Remedies. |
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