Ethnobotanical study with an interdisciplinary approach, combining linguistics, botany and anthropology. Gives an in-depth account of the daily life of the Digo in their day-to-day knowledge and conception of the plant world. Focuses on general botanical areas (plant description, identification, and classification), but also considers plant knowledge-application in agriculture and healing. 224pp, GERMANY. LIT VERLAG.

An exploration of sub Saharan Africa's natural philosophies looking at ways healers have used traditional belief systems to help their patients, from people looking for marital advice in Malawi, to dealing with post traumatic stress in Mozambican child soldiers. Illustrated with colour photographs. Bib, 212pp, SOUTH AFRICA. PENGUIN BOOKS.

2001 0670896616 Paperback

Revised and updated. Provides information on health, history and social sciences in an African American context. The author looks at the use of herbs for medicinal use, combating drugs, dealing with illness and holistic medicine amongst other topics. Index, 554pp, USA. A&B BOOKS PUBLISHERS.

Sub-Titled: Guidelines on how to use herbs to achieve a healthy living. As health is an individual responsibility, this book has much to offer: chapters on general and common diseases, on health for men, women and children and on specific problems: heart, head, etc. Many of the herbs used are widely available outside of Africa, and there is a colour illustrated section to help identify them. GHANA. ELIFAK HEALTH

Investigates the ways in which healers and indigenous archives of cultural knowledge concep-tualize and interpret medicine and healing by focusing on the primary institutional specialists that constitute the core of the indigenous therapeutic system, and proverbial, gold weight, adinkra, and oral narrative domains of cultural knowledge. The experiences, perceptions, and competence levels of healers are not identical, and to use one person as a standard or bench-mark is often problematic in the articulation of an 'ethnomedical system' authenticated by few sources that possess equivalent levels of in-depth medicinal knowledge and aptitude. In order to unearth prevailing concepts of medicine, Konadu utilizes in-depth interviews, medicinal samples, material culture, Akan linguistics, and historical and archaeological sources. 272pp, UK. ROUTLEDGE.