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Hadza conceptions of health and disease
One day symposium on attitudes to health and disease amonf some East African tribes • Kampala, Uganda • Published In 1959 • Pages: 89-94
By: Woodburn, James.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This report examines Hadza concepts of health and disease. Analysis of linguistic data and traditional healing practices shows that the main cause of illness is believed to be transgression of taboos related to hunting and meat sharing. Bodily traumas are an exception, attributed to actual causes such as falling from a tree, attack by wild animals, etc. Remedies include treating wounds with medicinal plants and by burning.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Theory of disease
- Pharmaceuticals
- Ethnoanatomy
- Avoidance and taboo
- Purification and atonement
- Bodily injuries
- Morbidity
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Hadza
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2019
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Africa
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Eastern Africa
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- essay
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Anthropologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Teferi Abate Adem; 2018
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1958-1959
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1958-1959
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Lake Eyasi area, Tanzania
- NotesAdditional notes
- J. C. Woodburn
- Includes bibliographical references
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Hatsa (African people)