Browsing A General Collection of Papers on Anthropology by Subject "health"

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Experience of initiating collaboration of traditional healers in managing HIV and AIDS in Tanzania

Kayombo, Edmund J; Uiso, Febronia C; Mbwambo, Zakaria H; Mahunnah, Rogasian L; Moshi, Mainen J; Mgonda, Yasin H (BioMed Central, 2007-01)

Collaboration between traditional healers and biomedical practitioners is now being accepted by many African countries south of the Sahara because of the increasing problem of HIV/AIDS. The key problem, however, is how to ...
The Shamanistic Journey and Anthropological Travels

Chernela, Janet M.; Leed, Eric (George Washington Institute for Ethnographic Research, 1996-07)

This paper offers two experienced instances of the anthropologist's engagement in local curing sequences as examples of the agreement of identities between anthropologist and shaman. This similitude of culturally disparate ...
Use of medicinal plants for human health in Udzungwa Mountains Forests: a case study of New Dabaga Ulongambi Forest Reserve, Tanzania

Kitula, Rukia A (BioMed Central, 2007-01)

The dependence of local people on plant medicine from natural forests has a long tradition in Tanzania and is becoming increasingly popular among rural and urban communities due to among others increase in living costs. ...