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Indigenous medicine in Windhoek (Namibia), 1915-1945 / Marion Wallace

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Series: Working Paper No. 9: 1996Publication details: Basel : B A B, 1996Description: 13 pages; 30 cmSubject(s): DDC classification:
  • REP 306.461 WAL
Summary: This paper illustrates two main points. Firstly, indigenous medicine in Namibia was vibrant and dynamic during the inter-war years. Secondly, many of the conclusions in this paper remain tentative and suggestive. Researching indigenous medicine through oral history is clearly possible, although it has not been a good investigative tool for certain aspects. What is clear is that indigenous medicine continues to play an important part in social and political processes within African communities, offering the vision of uncolonised spaces in a colonised territory
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This paper illustrates two main points. Firstly, indigenous medicine in Namibia was vibrant and dynamic during the inter-war years. Secondly, many of the conclusions in this paper remain tentative and suggestive. Researching indigenous medicine through oral history is clearly possible, although it has not been a good investigative tool for certain aspects. What is clear is that indigenous medicine continues to play an important part in social and political processes within African communities, offering the vision of uncolonised spaces in a colonised territory

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