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Medicine, health and medical practice in precolonial Khoikhoi society
History and anthropology • 11 (4) • Published In 1999 • Pages: 515-536
By: Viljoen, Russel Stafford.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This article explores the role and function of medicine, and medical practices in precolonial Khoikhoi society, South Africa. It argues that medicine and medical practice was deeply imbedded in Khoikhoi society at the time of colonization, proving that a sound culture of medicine and health existed for centuries.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Pharmaceuticals
- Medical care
- Ethnoanatomy
- Animal by-products
- Theory of disease
- External relations
- Morbidity
- Medical personnel
- Preventive medicine
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Khoi
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2010
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Africa
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Southern Africa
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- article
- 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.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Teferi Abate Adem; 2008
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- no date
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1650-1979
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- South Africa
- NotesAdditional notes
- Russel Viljoen
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 533-536)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 86646963
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Khoisan (African people)