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Traditional medicine -- Africa, Southern

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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)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• 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
  • Volume 1: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume 2: multiple formats at archive.org
  • both volumes: page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• Ngoma: Discourses of Healing in Central and Southern Africa (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992), by John M. Janzen (HTML at UC Press)

• 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)

• Ourselves to Know: Civil-Military Relations and Defence Transformation in Southern Africa (2002), ed. by Rocklyn Williams, Gavin Cawthra, and Diane Abrahams (PDF files at issafrica.org)
• Evolutions and Revolutions: A Contemporary History of Militaries in Southern Africa (2005), ed. by Martin Revai Rupiya (PDF with commentary at issafrica.org)
• The Enemy Within: Southern African Militaries' Quarter-Century Battle with HIV and AIDS (2006), ed. by Martin Revai Rupiya (PDF with commentary at issafrica.org)

• Exame das Viagens do Doutor Livingstone (in Portuguese; Lisbon: Imprensa Nacional, 1867), by José Maria Almeida e Araújo de Portugal Correia de Lacerda (page images at HathiTrust)
• Travel and Adventure in South-East Africa: Being the Narrative of the Last Eleven Years Spent by the Author on the Zambesi and its Tributaries, With an Account of the Colonisation of Mashunaland and the Progress of the Gold Industry in That Country (third edition; London: Rowland Ward and Co., 1893), by Frederick Courteney Selous (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa, by David Livingstone (Gutenberg text)
• Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa (New York: Harper and Bros., 1858), by David Livingstone
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• One for the Road, by Bjørn Christian Tørrissen (PDF and other formats with commentary at bjornfree.com)

• The Story of an African Farm, by Olive Schreiner
  • Volume I: HTML at Indiana
  • Volume II: HTML at Indiana
  • Gutenberg text
• Trooper Peter Halket of Mashonaland, by Olive Schreiner
  • Gutenberg text
  • HTML at Indiana

• Evolutions and Revolutions: A Contemporary History of Militaries in Southern Africa (2005), ed. by Martin Revai Rupiya (PDF with commentary at issafrica.org)

• The Adventures of Dick Maitland: A Tale of Unknown Africa, by Harry Collingwood, illust. by Alec Ball
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• The Bush Boys, by Mayne Reid (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Zabalaza: A Journal of Southern African Revolutionary Anarchism (2001-2015) (full serial archives)
• Zambezia (partial serial archives)
• Pula: Botswana Journal of African Studies (partial serial archives)

• The Creation of Tribalism in Southern Africa (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989), ed. by Leroy Vail (HTML at UC Press)

• Africa for the African (ca. 1897), by Joseph Booth (page images at HathiTrust)

• Angola: A Country Study (third edition, 1991), ed. by Thomas Collelo (multiple formats at loc.gov)

• Republic of Malawi, July 4-7, 1966: Souvenir Programme (1966) (page images at wel.org)

• A Manual of Portuguese East Africa (London: HMSO, 1920), by Great Britain Naval Intelligence Division Geographical Section (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mozambique (London: H. M. S. O., 1920), by Great Britain Foreign Office Historical Section (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Treatment of Natives and Other Populations in the Colonial Possessions of Germany and England: An Answer to the English Blue Book of August 1918 "Report on the Natives of Southwest Africa and Their Treatment by Germany" (Berlin: German Colonial Office, on sale by H.R. Engelmann, 1919), by Reichskolonialamt (Germany) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• South Africa: A Country Study (third edition, 1997), ed. by Rita M. Byrnes
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • multiple formats at loc.gov
• South Africa: A Western Society (New York: Information Service of South Africa, ca. 1961), by W. C. Naudé and South African Information Service (page images at HathiTrust)
• African Field Reports, 1952-1961 (Cape Town, C. Struik, 1961), by Edwin S. Munger (PDF at Caltech)
• South Africa To-Day, With an Account of Modern Rhodesia, by Hamilton Fyfe (multiple formats at archive.org)
• South Africa at War (ca. 1943), by South African Public Relations and Information Office, contrib. by Henry M. Moolman
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• Area Handbook for Zambia (second edition; 1974), by Irving Kaplan, Milena Choumenkovitch, James L. McLaughlin, Barbara Marvin, Harold D. Nelson, and Diane D. Novotny (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Rhodesia and its Government (London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1898), by H. C. Thomson (multiple formats at archive.org)
• South Africa To-Day, With an Account of Modern Rhodesia, by Hamilton Fyfe (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Hunting Trips in Northern Rhodesia, by Denis D. Lyell (multiple formats at archive.org)

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