Traditional Medicine (Other Keyword)

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The Antiquity and Persistence of Traditional Health Beliefs and Practices in the Northern Andes (2017)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Elizabeth Currie.

This paper presents findings of a new European Community funded research project: "Indigenous Concepts of Health and Healing in Andean Populations". The study population are indigenous Quechua peoples in northern Andean Ecuador. The project examines ethnic Andeans’ understanding of their world and how health, illness and healing are understood within it. Current practices of traditional medicine (TM) have evolved within complex historical contexts into new forms which can reveal the nature of...


Maize, Mast, and Other Plant Resources from the Late Prehistoric and Contact Period North Carolina Piedmont (2020)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Sierra S. Roark.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Before, After, and In Between: Archaeological Approaches to Places (through/in) Time" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The Contact period is often designated as a significant temporal marker for American archaeology. Excavations led by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill under the Siouan Project have produced an extensive number of archaeobotanical samples from late Prehistoric and Contact period...


Missionary Accounts of Fofo MO'Omo'o (1978)
DOCUMENT Citation Only R. J. Crawford.

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