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Author : John Oroshejede Ubrurhe
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Urhobo Traditional Medicine written by John Oroshejede Ubrurhe and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Peter Palmer Ekeh
Publisher : Urhobo Historical Society
ISBN 13 : 9789780677695
Total Pages : 800 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (776 download)
Download or read book Studies in Urhobo Culture written by Peter Palmer Ekeh and published by Urhobo Historical Society. This book was released on 2005 with total page 800 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unique book is the product of pioneering research carried out by scholars native to the Urhobo culture and language. Unlike many of the other major ethnic cultures in Nigeria, which were studied by Western anthropologist in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the Urhobo language and culture remained neglected. Studies in Urhobo Culture represents a comparatively new area of research, approached from an indigenous perspective. The result is a wide-ranging survey of Urhobo culture in Nigeria, offering diverse perspectives on topics such as: naming traditions and practices of the Urhobo; religious beliefs, values and movements; traditions of marriage; artistic productions, food and dress subcultures; and the geography of Urhoboland and agricultural practices. In-depth consideration is given to Urhobo traditional poetry and the intellectual aspects of Urhobo culture and language, within the wider complex of the Edoid languages and cultures. The contributors further situate the language question within the global context of language endangerment, arguing the Urhobo case is an example of how English and Pidgin are imperilling small and medium-sized languages in Africa, and weakening the hold of indigenous cultures on the younger generation.
Author : John Oroshejede Ubrurhe
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Urhobo Traditional Medicine written by John Oroshejede Ubrurhe and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author of this book provides an in-depth case study of Urhobo traditional medicine, as practised in the earliest, pre-technological era. He considers definitions, taxonomy, causality, and therapy, as practised by the Urhobo progenitors and later their progeny. He argues that the Urhobo traditional medical system is gradually being eroded by the ageing and death of its custodians and practitioners. The book further investigates the use of incantations and ritual in both Urhobo and Western medical systems, and objectively examines people's claims about its efficacy. The author is a Doctor of Philosophy and a specialist in African traditional religion and culture.
Author : Peter Ikechukwu Osuji
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319058916
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (19 download)
Download or read book African Traditional Medicine: Autonomy and Informed Consent written by Peter Ikechukwu Osuji and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-07-18 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on informed consent in African Traditional Medicine (ATM). ATM forms a large portion of the healthcare systems in Africa. WHO statistics show that as much as 80% of the population in Africa uses traditional medicine for primary health care. With such a large constituency, it follows that ATM and its practices should receive more attention in bioethics. By comparing the ethics of care approach with the ATM approach to Relational Autonomy In Consent (RAIC), the authors argue that the ATM focus on consent based on consensus constitutes a legitimate informed consent. This book is distinctive insofar as it employs the ethics of care as a hermeneutic to interpret ATM. The analysis examines the ethics of care movement in Western bioethics to explore its relational approach to informed consent. Additionally, this is the first known study that discusses healthcare ethics committees in ATM.
Author : Omoko, Peter E.
Publisher : Malthouse Press
ISBN 13 : 978555788X
Total Pages : 522 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (855 download)
Download or read book Scholarship and Commitment written by Omoko, Peter E. and published by Malthouse Press. This book was released on 2018-06-14 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Professor Darah turned seventy on Wednesday November 22, 2017 and to celebrate his very productive career, his colleagues and many of those he has mentored thought it appropriate to mark his official exit from the university in a dignified way by commissioning for publication, in the now acceptable festschrift tradition, the highly compelling and outstanding collection of essays titled: Scholarship and Commitment: Essays in Honour of G.G. Darah. The book is a ground-breaking collection of essays; some are couched as tributes to the ebullient celebrant, there are others on more serious discourses in the areas of literary theories and criticism, language and linguistics, popular literature and politics, the African woman, identity and contemporary realities, oral literature, the news media and cultural studies. The essays, on their own, attest to the vivacity and liveliness as well as the encouraging state of health of publishing in the Nigerian academia, which in this collection alone, parades forty-two essays in different fields or discourses.
Author : Tanure Ojaide
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book The Urhobo Language Today written by Tanure Ojaide and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a pioneering work on Urhobo language, and since language is not the restricted domain of only scholars of linguistics, other aspects of the language or issues that impinge on language use are also discussed in this collection of essays by a eleven experts drawn from research institutes and universities. Since literature is a vehicle of language, the proverbs and axioms of the language as well as the oratorical and performance traditions in Urhobo are also covered competently. Other cultural aspects, especially music, are also seen as enhancers of the language. To underscore the significance of religion and language, some contributors here examine the relationship between the Urhobo language and Christian evangelisation and between the language and the people's belief systems. Another also explores the place of language in what has come to be known as Urhobo "disco" music. The essays reinforce each other and some points are repeated for emphasis because of their cultural significance. The closeness of several topics, especially the challenges of the language and culture and on evangelisation in Urhobo as well as Gospel music in Urhobo, is intended to exhaustively open up the Urhobo language debate." Tanure Ojaide is Professor of African-American and African Studies at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, where he teaches African/Pan-African literature and art. Rose Aziza is the Head of Department of Languages and Linguistics and Director of the Urhobo Studies Programme at the Delta State University in Nigeria.
Author : I. Ejizu
Publisher : African Books Collective
ISBN 13 : 9785431169
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (854 download)
Download or read book Readings on Religion and Culture in Africa written by I. Ejizu and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2016-09-13 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a book of reading on religion and culture in Africa comprising ten papers by experts in religion and cultural matters and an introductory note by the editor himself. Covered in the volume are papers covering: the impact of secularisation and urbanisation on a most cherished socio-cultural practice of the extended family system of the Isoko people in Nigeria; the traditional medical practices in Urhobo with particular focus on the use of local herbs to treat ailments; the socioreligious as well as the political significance of Obiri (family hall) in Ikwerreland; the rationale behind the use of the concept Dunamis in the Gospel According to Staint Mark. Although his paper does not focus on African (traditional) religion, its inclusion here is based purely on the theological significance of the concept of Dunamis; the extent to which evil spirits and mysterious forces have influenced the religion and culture of the Urhobo people of Nigeria; the significance of festivals in the traditional African society; John Wesleys innovations in Christendom and their implications for Africa; the recent unprecedented upsurge in the assumed use of religious powers to cast out evil spirits as well as for prayer healing among Muslims in Nigeria; the culture of alienation, anxiety and violence, drawing inspiration from the Fall Story of Genesis 3; and the widowhood practices of some areas in Nigeria.
Author : David T. Adamo
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1579107001
Total Pages : 127 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (791 download)
Download or read book Reading and Interpreting the Bible in African Indigenous Churches written by David T. Adamo and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2001-07-23 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : G. G. Darah
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Studies in Art, Religion & Culture Among the Urhobo & Isoko People written by G. G. Darah and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Anselm Adodo
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 0429804474
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (298 download)
Download or read book Healing Plants of Nigeria written by Anselm Adodo and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2020-03-17 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Healing Plants of Nigeria: Ethnomedicine and Therapeutic Applications offers comprehensive information on the use of herbal medicines in West Africa. Combining an evidence-based, ethnobotanical perspective with a pharmacological and pharmaceutical approach to phytomedicine, the book bridges the gap between the study of herbal plants’ pharmacological properties and active compounds for the development of clinical drugs and community-oriented approaches, emphasising local use. It demonstrates how the framework of African traditional medicine can be preserved in a contemporary clinical context. The book outlines the history and beliefs surrounding the traditional use of herbs by the local population alongside their application in contemporary phytotherapy in Nigeria and West Africa. It features a critical assessment of the scientific rationale behind the use of these plants in ethnomedicine and offers a composite catalogue of phytotherapeutic and wellness agents, detailing the safety profile, efficacy, and scientific integrity of plants used to treat diseases and optimise health. Features: An ethnobotanical survey containing over 200 full-colour photographs of Nigerian and West African plants. A unique combination of ethnobotany and pharmacognosy, bridging the divide between pharmaceutical and community-oriented approaches to herbal medicine research. Contextual discussion of the therapeutic potential of Nigerian herbal medicine. Offers a template which can be used to separate the superstitious aspects of ethnomedicine from culturally inherited deposits of knowledge. A handbook for herbal and natural medicine practitioners, the book is aimed at African thinkers, scientists, healthcare providers and students of pharmacology and ethnomedicine.
Author : Ikechukwu Anthony Kanu
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1665599596
Total Pages : 407 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (655 download)
Download or read book African Indigenous Ecological Knowledge Systems written by Ikechukwu Anthony Kanu and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2022-07-14 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The perspectives in this book reveal how in African anthroposophy, earth-based spiritual traditions and innovative spiritual practices are already emerging in response to the painful realities of climate change, mass extinction, biodiversity loss, and the disruption of local and global ecosystems which have for long not received the attention that it duly deserves. This piece, therefore, will become one of the greatest ornaments and lights in the world of African eco-spirituality as it responds to questions that are long overdue.
Author : Okpako, David T.
Publisher : Book Builders
ISBN 13 : 9789210884
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (892 download)
Download or read book Science Interrogating Belief written by Okpako, David T. and published by Book Builders. This book was released on 2015-08-06 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traditional African medicine (TAM) is an ancient healing art. In this wide-ranging study the author presents an interpretation of the beliefs that constitute the theoretical framework for TAM practices, and concludes that the beliefs share many characteristics with modern medical theory, but there are significant differences from the latter which reflect the African experience. Fever, malaria and plant remedies, have one common denominator i.e., the biological phenomenon known as inflammation. This is the backbone of the hypothesis put forward in the second half of the book: In traditional African societies malaria was successfully cured with plant remedies which suppressed malaria-induced inflammation; because the people had significant immunity against the disease, the causative plasmodium parasite was eliminated by the host's body. How indigenous plant remedies can now be used to minimize malaria drug resistance is outlined, and an Africa-centered approach to malaria control-which takes into account the African's intrinsic protective immunity and his extensive knowledge of anti-fever plant remedies, is advocated. Science Interrogating Belief is essentially an outline of the basic principles of TAM. It points to ways in which the modern and ancient traditions of medicine can come together for the benefit of mankind
Author : Joseph Ojo Mume
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Traditional Medicine in Nigeria written by Joseph Ojo Mume and published by . This book was released on 1973* with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Library of Congress
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1544 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book Library of Congress Subject Headings written by Library of Congress and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 1544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Library of Congress. Cataloging Policy and Support Office
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1688 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Library of Congress Subject Headings written by Library of Congress. Cataloging Policy and Support Office and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 1688 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Onigu Otite
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 548 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Urhobo People written by Onigu Otite and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 528 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (3 download)
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