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Working The Roots: Over 400 Years of Traditional African American Healing
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Brand New: A new, unread, unused book in perfect condition with no missing or damaged pages. See all condition definitionsopens in a new window or tab
- ISBN
- 9780692857878
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Wadastick
ISBN-10
0692857877
ISBN-13
9780692857878
eBay Product ID (ePID)
3038816190
Product Key Features
Book Title
Working the Roots : over 400 Years of Traditional African American Healing
Number of Pages
396 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Healing, Herbal Medications, African American
Publication Year
2017
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Health & Fitness, Medical, History
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.8 in
Item Weight
32.2 Oz
Item Length
11 in
Item Width
8.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
Reviews
"A blessing for generations to come, Michele Lee's Working the Roots is the result of meticulous research and compelling storytelling. This almost-lost knowledge rekindles the passionate fire of primordial African holistic healing for an audience whose survival just may count on it." R. Dafina Kuficha Practicing acupuncturist, health educator, and spiritual counselor "I love this book! Working the Roots is an impressively well-written account of African American root medicine that reads like an adventure novel and is hard to put down. The book is an invaluable treasure for anthropologists, ethno-botanists, historians, herbalists, and others wanting a look inside the uncharted terrain of African American root and folk medicine." Dr. Gail P. Myers Cultural Anthropologist and filmmaker "Working the Roots is an example and testimony of African tradition that permeates the Americas and speaks to the widespread and in-depth knowledge African people possess about health and healing. Luck for us to now have this wealth of invaluable knowledge at our finger-tips." Opal Palmer Adisa Distinguished professor, poet, novelist, and photographer "This book is fundamental to the deeper understudying of a culture that usually is glossed over and commandeered or down played way too often. Working The Roots is my story as it is in many different degrees, the story of all Afro-Americans." Opensanwo Ifakorede Fadario Traditional health consultant, healer, visual artist, and initiated Ifa practitioner
Synopsis
African American traditional medicine is an American classic that emerged out of the necessity of its people to survive. It began with the healing knowledge brought with the African captives on the slave ships and later merged with Native American, European and other healing traditions to become a full-fledged body of medicinal practices that has lasted in various forms down to the present day. Working the Roots: Over 400 Years Of Traditional African American Healing is the result of first-hand interviews, conversations, and apprenticeships conducted and experienced by author Michele E. Lee over several years of living and studying in the rural South and in the West Coast regions of the United States. She combines a novelist's keen ear for storytelling and dialogue and a healer's understanding of folk medicine arts into a book that makes for both pleasant, interesting reading, and serves as a permanent household healing guide. Divided between sections on interviews of healers and their stories and a comprehensive collection of traditional African American medicines, remedies, and the many common ailments they were called upon to cure, Working The Roots is a valuable addition to African American history and American and African folk healing practices., "Working The Roots: Over 400 Years of Traditional African American Healing" is an engaging study of the traditional healing arts that have sustained African Americans across the Atlantic ocean for four centuries down through today. Complete with photographs and illustrations, a medicines, remedies, and hoodoo section, interviews and stories.
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