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"The first time I witnessed a Spiritist surgery, a young man named Jose Carlos Ribeiro inserted a used scalpel taken from a tray that I was holding, and plunged it into the eye of an elderly man. The patient did not move...." Decades of fieldwork later, Sidney Greenfield presents a riveting ethnography of the complex world of religious healing in Brazil that challenges readers to grapple with the most fundamental concepts of anthropology and cross-cultural experience. In a major contribution to cultural biology, he analyses the complex social, economic, and political landscape of Brazil to

Ethnobiology --- Healing --- Traditional medicine --- Spirit possession --- Brazil --- Religious life and customs. --- Social life and customs.

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"This is an extraordinary book that describe the people of a small town in Mexico and their remarkable knowledge of the natural world in which they live."--Jacket.

Zapotec Indians --- Zapotec Indians --- Zapotec Indians --- Ethnobotany --- Names, Zapotec --- Plant names, Popular --- Ethnobotany --- Ethnozoology --- Ethnobiology --- San Juan Mixtepec, Miahuatlán (Mexico : Community) --- Social life and customs.

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De création récente, les sociétés de la Caraïbe sont issues de la colonisation des Amériques qui s'accompagna de l'extermination de populations amérindiennes, de la transplantation et de l'esclavage de populations d'origine africaine, puis de différentes vagues de migration. Ces sociétés ont su pourtant élaborer des systèmes originaux de représentations du corps et de la maladie qui rendent compte de leur inscription sur un sol nouveau et expriment de nouveaux rapports sociaux. Cet ouvrage étudie plus particulièrement la manière dont, à la Guadeloupe, les savoirs concernant la santé et la maladie constituent un ensemble structuré de représentations et de pratiques qui renvoient à des cosmogonies bien définies. En recourant aux méthodologies de l'ethnobotanique et de l'ethnomédecine, en faisant appel à la cartographie, l'auteur analyse la pharmacopée à base de plantes médicinales et propose une lecture originale du paysage des jardins de case. L'organisation de ces derniers reflète en effet la vision du monde de ses occupants, et matérialise dans l'espace le bien-être et les maux du corps, tout comme les relations avec l'entourage et les morts. On découvre ainsi comment, dans une situation de pluralisme médical et dans un milieu pluriethnique, des thérapeutes et des patients passent d'un système médical à l'autre sans pour autant abandonner leur vision du monde.

Human body --- Space --- Corps humain --- Espace --- Social aspects --- Aspect social --- Traditional medicine --- Ethnobotany --- Medicinal plants --- Ethnology - West Indies. --- Ethnic medicine --- Ethnomedicine --- Folk medicine --- Home cures --- Home medicine --- Home remedies --- Indigenous medicine --- Medical folklore --- Medicine, Primitive --- Primitive medicine --- Surgery, Primitive --- Alternative medicine --- Folklore --- Medical anthropology --- Ethnopharmacology --- Body, Human --- Human beings --- Body image --- Human anatomy --- Human physiology --- Mind and body --- Drug plants --- Plants, Useful --- Botanical drug industry --- Botany, Medical --- Materia medica, Vegetable --- Psychotropic plants --- Indigenous peoples --- Ethnobiology --- Plants --- Human-plant relationships

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This book covers the ethnobiology and traditional ecological knowledge (TEK) of the Solega people of southern India. Solega TEK is shown to be a complex, inter-related network of detailed observations of natural phenomena, well-reasoned and often highly accurate theorizing, as well as a belief system, derived from cultural norms, regarding the relationships between humans and other species on the one hand, and between non-human species on the other. As language-based studies are strongly biased toward investigations of ethno-taxonomy and nomenclature, the importance of studying TEK in its proper context is discussed as making context and encyclopedic knowledge the objects of study are essential for a proper understanding of TEK.

Plant anatomy. --- Botany - General --- Plant Geography --- Botany --- Earth & Environmental Sciences --- Soligas (Indic people) --- Ethnobiology. --- Plant structure --- Plants --- Structural botany --- Vegetable anatomy --- Anatomy --- Structure --- Ethnology --- Plant Ecology. --- Anthropology. --- Plant Systematics/Taxonomy/Biogeography. --- Plant Anatomy/Development. --- Human beings --- Ecology --- Phytoecology --- Vegetation ecology --- Plant systematics. --- Plant taxonomy. --- Plant ecology. --- Plant development. --- Development of plants --- Plant development --- Developmental biology --- Growth (Plants) --- Botanical classification --- Botanical systematics --- Botanical taxonomy --- Classification --- Plant biosystematics --- Plant classification --- Plant systematics --- Plant taxonomy --- Systematic botany --- Systematics (Botany) --- Taxonomy, Plant --- Plant taxonomists --- Ontogeny --- Floristic ecology --- Primitive societies --- Social sciences --- Plant Evolution. --- Plant Development. --- Evolution. --- Development. --- Plant evolution --- Evolution (Biology) --- Phylogeny

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ethnobiology --- ethnoecology --- traditional knowledge --- Ethnoscience --- Indigenous knowledge systems --- Traditional knowledge systems (Ethnology) --- Ethnology --- Science --- Ethnoscience. --- Brazil. --- al-Barāzīl --- Barāzīl --- Brasil --- Brasile --- Brasilia --- Brasili --- Brasilien --- Brazili --- Brazili Federativlă Respubliki --- Brazilia --- Brazilii͡ --- Brazilii͡a Federativ Respublikaḣy --- Braziliya --- Braziliya Federativ Respublikası --- Brazilská federativní republika --- Brazylia --- Brésil --- Burajiru --- Federale Republiek van Brasili --- Federative Republic of Brazil --- Federativna republika Brazil --- Federativna republika Brazilii͡ --- Federat͡siėm Respublikė Brazil --- Fedėratyŭnai͡a Rėspublika Brazilii͡ --- Gweriniaeth Ffederal Brasil --- Pa-hsi --- Pa-se --- Pa-se Liân-pang Kiōng-hô-kok --- Pederatibong Republika sa Brasil --- Pindorama --- República Federal del Brasil --- Republica Federale di u Brasile --- Republica Federativa del Brazil --- República Federativa do Brasil --- Rèpublica fèdèrativa du Brèsil --- Republik Kevreel Brazil --- République fédérative du Brésil --- Tantasqa Republika Wrasil --- Tetã Pindorama --- Wrasil --- Social & Cultural Anthropology