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Bloodletting as a harmful and misguided first-aid response to seizures in sub-saharan Africa: a case-based review. [PDF]

open access: yesEpilepsy Behav Rep
Magala GC   +8 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Tetela amulets: Re-interpreting a medical anthropology collection as a fashion benchmark

open access: yesInternational Journal of Fashion Studies, 2019
This record is for a(n) postprint of an article published in International Journal of Fashion Studies on 2019-10-01.In the 1920s and 30s, missionaries and colonial officials in equatorial Africa collected thousands of amulets—devices worn on the body ...
Heather Marie Akou
exaly   +1 more source

Making Amulets Christian

open access: yes, 2017
This book examines Greek amulets with Christian elements from late antique Egypt in order to discern the processes whereby a customary practice—the writing of incantations on amulets—changed in an increasingly Christian context.
Theodore de Bruyn
exaly   +2 more sources

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