Contents
1 INTRODUCTION
(a) An econunter with Yoruba medicine
(b) A cognitive approach to Yoruba medicine
2 GERMS AND WORMS OR IS GONORRHOEA REALLY GOOD FOR YOU?
(a) Arun (illness and disease)
(b) Some simple illnesses
(c) Others simple illnesses
(d) Types of medicine
(e) Medicines to cure simple illnesses
(f) Image 1 Some concluding remarks on simple illnesses
3 COLOUR AND THE HUMAN BODY. REDNESS REVEALED
(a) Yoruba colour terms
(b) Image 2 The human body and cosmos: colours hidden and revealed
(c) Eda and somuroro
(d) Health, illness and images 1 and 2
4 COLOUR AND THE HUMAN BODY : RED AND WHITE CONFOUNDED
(a) fever
5 COLOUR AND THE HUMAN BODY: BLACK BLOOD
(a) Ase dudu (black menstruation)
(b) Lakuegbe (rheumatism)
(c) Imo run (pellagra)
(d) Colour and the human body: some concluding remarks
6. IFA SONPONNO AND THE PALM-TREE
(a) Hot earth and the wind
(b) Ifa
(c) Ifa and sonponno
(d) The paradigm
7. HIDDEN KNOWLEDGE AND RATIONALITY THE WORK OF INCANTATION
(a) Curses, prayers, and speaking the truth
(b) Medicinal incantation (ofo)
(c) Some implications of the secrecy of medicine by incantation
(d) Some comments on incantation and rationality
8. FOOD, WINE, SEX, AND MEDICINE IN SOCIAL RELATIONSHIPS
(a) The Yoruba lineage and compound
(b) Food, wine and sex in social ralationships
(c) Medicine in social relationships
(d) The paradigm and symbolism
Reviews
There are no reviews yet.