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Folk Medicine Use Among The Gullah: Bridging The Gap Between Folk Medicine And Westernized Medicine
, 2013 This study examined the practice of folk medicine among a group of African Americans living on the coast of the Sea Islands, the Gullah/Geechee. The Gullah/Geechee are descendants of enslaved Africans, transported from Western and West-Central Africa ...
Banks, Tiara S
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Literacy and healers’s tactics in Finnish folk medicine 1850–1950 [PDF]
, 2022 Folk medicine inevitably declined and was pushed into the margins with the spread of literacy and the proliferation of modern, scientific biomedicine. However, it remained the primary route to health in peripheral regions of Europe, such as rural Finland,
Kananoja, Kalle
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Measuring Nutrition Security Using the Consumer Food Data System Datasets
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Nutrition security is an emerging concept lacking a consensus definition, conceptualization, or standardized measure. This perspectives manuscript synthesizes findings from two previously published analyses to assess the feasibility of using available measures of key dimensions of nutrition security from two Consumer Food Data System (CFDS ...
Vibha Bhargava +2 more
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Folk medicine and horticulture [PDF]
, 1995 The article discusses the uses of marine organisms in folk medicine and in horticulture in the Philippines. Commonly used marine organisms are the different varieties of seaweeds, sea urchin, sea cucumber, turtle, crocodile and fishes such as grouper and
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The Insistence of Blackness and the Persistence of Antiblackness in Ireland
Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper positions Ireland as a critical site for examining the insistence of blackness and an antiblackness created and sustained through Irish ethnonationalist imaginaries and exclusionary processes. Drawing on connected sociologies and Irish Black Studies, this enquiry argues that antiblackness in Ireland operates as a generational force,
Philomena Mullen
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Plants Producing Ribosome-Inactivating Proteins in Traditional Medicine
Molecules, 2016 Ribosome-inactivating proteins (RIPs) are enzymes that deadenylate nucleic acids and are broadly distributed in the plant kingdom. Many plants that contain RIPs are listed in the pharmacopoeias of folk medicine all over the world, mostly because of their
Letizia Polito +4 more
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‘Where are the adults?’: Troubling child‐activism and children's political participation
British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract Children's political participation is a well‐established theme in childhood studies. In this article we offer an original account of child activism that takes into account the entangled and emergent aspect of children as activists. We begin with a historical and a conceptual review, noting the importance of mid‐20th century developments such ...
Sharon Hunter, Claire Cassidy
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Four New Picrotoxane-Type Sesquiterpenes From Dendrobium nobile Lindl
Frontiers in Chemistry, 2019 Four picrotoxane-type sesquiterpenes, dendroterpene A–D (1–4), together with four known compounds (5–8), were isolated from the stems of Dendrobium nobile Lindl.
Pei Wang +10 more
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The role of the furnace in Karelians funeral and memorial rites and folk medicine
Финно-угорский мир, 2020 Introduction. The article studies the role of the furnace in funeral-memorial rite and folk medicine of the Karelians. The study examines the functions of the furnace at all stages of the funeral-memorial rite, starting with the death of a person.
Yevgeniy V. Karakin, Tatyana V. Pashkova
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La Flora Común es la Flora Medicinal
Revue d'ethnoécologie, 2021 This essay draws a definitive distinction between special or secret knowledge and popular [folk or common] knowledge of the medicinal plant species that form the core of the empirical herbal medicine of the Tzeltal and Tzotzil of the Chiapas Highlands ...
Brent Berlin, Elois Ann Berlin
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