Traditional medicine -- Africa
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Ngoma: Discourses of Healing in Central and Southern Africa (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992), by John M. Janzen (HTML at UC Press)
- Ngoma: Discourses of Healing in Central and Southern Africa (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992), by John M. Janzen (HTML at UC Press)
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Filed under: Traditional medicine- Healing Logics: Culture and Medicine in Modern Health Belief Systems (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, c2001), ed. by Erika Brady (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)
- Herbal Medicine: Biomolecular and Clinical Aspects (second edition; Boca Raton: CRC Press, 2011), ed. by Iris F. F. Benzie and Sissi Wachtel-Galor (illustrated HTML at NIH)
- Vergleichende Volksmedizin: Eine Darstellung Volksmedizinischer Sitten und Gebräuche, Anschauungen und Heilfaktoren, des Aberglaubens und der Zaubermedizin (2 volumes in German; Stuttgart: Strecker und Schröder, 1908-1909), ed. by Oskar von Hovorka and A. Kronfeld
- Genetic Resources, Justice and Reconciliation: Canada and Global Access and Benefit Sharing (Cambridge, UK et al.: Cambridge University Press, 2019), ed. by Chidi Oguamanam (HTML and PDF files with commentary at Cambridge University Press)
- The "Medicine-Man", or, Indian and Eskimo Notions of Medicine (1886), by Robert Bell (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Recovery, Renewal, Reclaiming: Anthropological Research Toward Healing (selected papers from the 2013 annual meeting of the Southern Anthropological Society; Knoxville: Newfound Press, c2015), ed. by Lindsey King (PDF at Tennessee)
- Recipe Book (manuscript, 1705), by D. Petre (page images here at Penn)
- Man and Woman Their Own Doctor, or, a Salve for Every Sore: Being a Book Full of Rare Receipts for The Most Dangerous Distempers Incident To The Bodies of Men, Women, and Children, And Very Fit To Be in All Families, In This Crasie, Sickly, and Bad Times (London: Printed for L. White, 1676), by John Ponteus (page images at NIH)
- A Little Book of Rare Receipts for The Cure of Several Distempers: Viz, The King's Evil, Stone, Chollick, Black and Yellow Jaundice, Piles, Ague, Worms, Black Thrush in Children's Mouths, Breakings Out in Their Infancy, Rickets, Small-pox, The Itch, Etc., Set Forth For The Benefit of All Poor Christians (London: Printed for A. Bettesworth, ca. 1710), by Giles Parsons (page images at NIH)
- Las Yerbas de la Gente: A Study of Hispano-American Medicinal Plants (University of Michigan Anthropological Papers #60; 1975), by Karen Cowan Ford (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- Las Yerbas de la Gente: A Study of Hispano-American Medicinal Plants (University of Michigan Anthropological Papers #60; 1975), by Karen Cowan Ford (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- A Domestic Cook Book, Containing a Careful Selection of Useful Receipts for the Kitchen, by Malinda Russell, An Experienced Cook, Paw Paw, Michigan, 1866: A Facsimile of the First Known Cookbook by an African American (Ann Arbor: W. L. Clements Library, c2007), by Malinda Russell, ed. by Janice Bluestein Longone (page images at HathiTrust)
- A Domestic Cook Book, Containing a Careful Selection of Useful Receipts for the Kitchen (Paw Paw, MI: Printed by T. O. Ward, 1866), by Malinda Russell (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Beverages of the Chinese; Gongfu; or, Tauist Medical Gymnastics; The Population of China; A Modern Chinese Anatomist; and A Chapter in Chinese Surgery (Tianjin: Tientsin Press, 1895), by John Dudgeon (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Kung-Fu: or, Tauist Medical Gymnastics (from a larger book published in Tianjin by Tienstin Press, 1895), by John Dudgeon (illustrated HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)
- Falun Gong (fourth edition, 2001), by Li Hongzhi (HTML at falundafa.org)
- Zhuan Falun, by Li Hongzhi (HTML at falundafa.org)
- Speaking with Vampires: Rumor and History in Colonial Africa (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000), by Luise White (HTML at UC Press)
- Among Congo Cannibals: Experiences, Impressions, and Adventures During a Thirty Years' Sojourn Amongst the Boloki and Other Congo tribes, With a Description of Their Curious Habits, Customs, Religion, and Laws (London: Seeley, Service and Co., 1913), by John H. Weeks (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Congo Life and Folklore (London: Religious Tract Society, 1911), by John H. Weeks (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- Uit den Kunstschat der Bakongos (2 volumes, in Dutch; Amsterdam: C. L. Van Langenhuysen; Berlin: D. Reimer, 1908), by Ivo Struyf
- Speaking with Vampires: Rumor and History in Colonial Africa (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000), by Luise White (HTML at UC Press)
- The King of the Snakes and Other Folk-Lore Stories From Uganda (London et al.: The Sheldon Press, 1922), by Rosetta Baskerville, illust. by Mrs. E. G. Morris (illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
- We Two in West Africa (New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1909), by Decima Moore and Frederick Gordon Guggisberg (page images at HathiTrust)
- Die Kpelle: Ein Negerstamm in Liberia (in German; Gottingen: Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht; Leipzig: J. C. Hinrichs, 1921), by Diedrich Westermann, contrib. by Hermann Oscar Rohde (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- Negro Culture in West Africa (New York: Neale Pub. Co., 1914), by George Washington Ellis (page images at HathiTrust)
- Heroic Poets, Poetic Heroes: The Ethnography of Performance in an Arabic Oral Epic Tradition (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1995), by Dwight Fletcher Reynolds (multiple formats with commentary at Cornell Open)
- Look at Africa (Headline series #43; New York: Foreign Policy Association, c1943), by R. G. Woolbert and M. S. Woolbert (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Africa: Slave or Free? (London: Student Christian Movement, 1919), by John H. Harris, contrib. by Sydney Haldane Olivier Olivier
- Budgeting for the Military Sector in Africa: The Processes and Mechanisms of Control (2006), ed. by Wuyi Omitoogun and Eboe Hutchful (PDF with commentary at sipri.org)
- The Tensions between Culture and Human Rights: Emancipatory Social Work and Afrocentricity in a Global World (Calgary: University of Calgary Press, c2021), ed. by Vishanthie Sewpaul, Linda Kreitzer, and Tanusha Raniga (PDF files at University of Calgary)
- The Native Problem in Africa (2 volumes; New York: Macmillan, 1928), by Raymond Leslie Buell
- A Book of the Beginnings (2 volumes; London: Williams and Norgate, 1881), by Gerald Massey
- Britain, France and the Decolonization of Africa: Future Imperfect? (London: UCL Press, 2017), ed. by Andrew W. M. Smith and Chris Jeppesen (PDF with commentary at UCL Press)
- Acte Général de la Conférence de Berlin (with its protocols, in French; ca. 1885), by Berlin West Africa Conference (1884-1885 : Berlin, Germany)
- The Native Problem in Africa (2 volumes; New York: Macmillan, 1928), by Raymond Leslie Buell
- Africa and its Inhabitants (4 volumes; London: Virtue and Co., ca. 1899), by Elisée Reclus, ed. by A. H. Keane
- Africa: Being an Accurate Description of the Regions of Aegypt, Barbary, Lybia, and Billedulgerid, the Land of Negroes, Guinee, Aethiopia and the Abyssines, With All the Adjacent Islands, Either in the Mediterranean, Atlantick, Southern or Oriental Sea, Belonging Thereunto (London: Printed by T. Johnson for the author, 1670), by John Ogilby (HTML at EEBO TCP)
- An Amateur in Africa (New York: The Adelphi Co., ca. 1925), by C. Lestock Reid (page images at HathiTrust)
- My Journey From Rhodesia to Egypt, Including an Ascent of Ruwenzori and a Short Account of the Route From Cape Town to Broken Hill and Lado to Alexandria (London: Hutchinson and Co., 1911), by Theo Kassner (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Round the Black Man's Garden (Edinburgh and London: W. Blackwood and Sons, 1903), by Zélie Colvile (multiple formats at archive.org)
- A Woman's Winter in Africa: A 26,000 Mile Journey (London: S. Paul and Co., c1913), by Charlotte Cameron
- The Congo and Coasts of Africa (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1907), by Richard Harding Davis
- Great African Travellers, from Mungo Park to Livingstone and Stanley, by William Henry Giles Kingston (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- The Negro Around the World (New York: G. H. Doran Co., c1925), by Willard Price, illust. by George Annand
- Travels of a Philosopher: or, Observations on the Manners and Arts of Various Nations in Africa and Asia (Augusta: Reprinted by P. Edes, 1797), by Pierre Poivre (HTML at Evans TCP)
- The Blind African Slave, Or Memoirs of Boyrereau Brinch, Nicknamed Jeffrey Brace, by Boyrereau Brinch and Benjamin F. Prentiss (HTML and TEI at UNC)
- Heroes of the Dark Continent, by James W. Buel (illustrated HTML with commentary at erbzine.com)
- The Journal of a Mission to the Interior of Africa, in the Year 1805, Together With Other Documents, Official And Private, Relating To The Same Mission, to Which Is Prefixed an Account of the Life of Mr. Park, by Mungo Park, ed. by J. Whishaw (Gutenberg text)
- Life and Travels of Mungo Park, With a Full Narrative of Subsequent Adventure in Central Africa (Thomas Nelson edition (Edinburgh), mid-1800s), by Mungo Park, ed. by Andrew R. Bonar (Gutenberg text)
- Negroland, or, Light Thrown Upon The Dark Continent: The History of African Exploration and Adventure as Given in the Leading Authorities From Herodotus to the Latest Explorers, Including Livingston, Speke, Baker, Stanley, Johnston, and Others (New York: Hurst and Co., c1881), by Charles H. Jones and H. L. Williams
- Travels in the Interior of Africa (Cassell edition, late 1800s; omits some material in original 1799 edition), by Mungo Park, ed. by Henry Morley
- The Discoveries of Prince Henry the Navigator, and Their Results: Being the Narrative of the Discovery by Sea, Within One Century, of More Than Half the World (London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington, 1877), by Richard Henry Major (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Discoveries of Prince Henry the Navigator, and Their Results: Being the Narrative of the Discovery by Sea, Within One Century, of More Than Half the World (second edition; London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington, 1877), by Richard Henry Major (page images at HathiTrust)
- Ostafrikanische Studien (in French; Schaffhausen: F. Hurter, 1864), by Werner Munzinger
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