José Pinto de Azeredo

Essays on Some Maladies of Angola (1799)

Herausgeber: Walker, Timothy D. / Übersetzer: Lloyd-Jones, Stewart

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A unique medical text describing healing practices in Africa at the peak of the transatlantic slave trade

Produktdetails

• Classic Histories from the Por
• Verlag: Tagus Press
• Seitenzahl: 164
• Altersempfehlung: ab 22 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. April 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 154mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 265g
• ISBN-13: 9781933227696
• ISBN-10: 1933227699
• Artikelnr.: 44004720

Autorenporträt

JOSÉ PINTO DE AZEREDO (1764-1810) was born in Brazil, trained in medicine at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, and lived in western Africa (Luanda) for nearly a decade at the end of the eighteenth century. He observed indigenous African folk healers to learn their medical traditions. His Essays on Some Maladies of Angola (1799) is an empirical work of early ethnography through which African conditions influenced European ideas about medicine.