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100 1 _aHewat, Matthew L.
245 1 0 _aBantu Folk Lore (Medical and General)
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2022
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
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_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
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_2rdacarrier
500 _aRelease date is 2022-03-09
508 _aJeroen Hellingman and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net/ for Project Gutenberg (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
520 _a"Bantu Folk Lore (Medical and General)" by Matthew L. Hewat is a detailed ethnographic study written in the early 20th century. The work explores the medical beliefs, practices, and cultural lore of the Bantu tribes, providing valuable insight into their healing methods and societal structures. The book serves to document practices that were rapidly vanishing due to the influences of colonialism and modernization, thus capturing a crucial piece of cultural history. The opening of the text presents a contextual background in which the author discusses his personal experiences among the Bantu people in the border districts of the Cape Colony. He emphasizes the urgency of documenting their medical folk lore, as traditional practices are being overshadowed by Western civilization. Hewat introduces topics such as the importance of the Bantu tribes’ herbal remedies, the role of witchcraft in their understanding of illness, and the various superstitions that underpin their medical practices. Through detailed observations and references to contributions made by local informants, the opening lays the groundwork for a thorough examination of how the Bantu people interpret health, disease, and the natural world around them. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_cSouth Africa: T. Maskew Miller, 1906
653 _aTraditional medicine -- South Africa
653 _aPondo (African people)
653 _aXhosa (African people)
653 _aZulu (African people)
856 4 _uhttps://archive.org/details/b28992441/page/n5
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/67597
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