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Umhlonyane, also known as Artemisia afra, is one of the oldest and best-documented indigenous medicines in South Africa. This bush, which grows wild throughout the sub-Saharan region, smells and tastes like medicine, thus easily making its way into people's lives and becoming the choice of everyday healing for Xhosa healer-diviners and Rastafarian herbalists. This natural remedy has recently sparked curiosity as scientists search for new molecules against a tuberculosis pandemic while hoping to recognize indigenous medicine. Laplante follows umhlonyane on its trails and trials of becoming a biopharmaceutical - from the open air to controlled environments - learning from the plant and from the people who use it with hopes in healing.

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This book represents an interesting addition to the emerging series of articles and books dedicated to the study of the interactions between Western and African systems of knowledge - [It] is very provocative and will no doubt provoke many intellectual debates. * Gilles Bibeau, Universite de Montreal

This book represents an interesting addition to the emerging series of articles and books dedicated to the study of the interactions between Western and African systems of knowledge...[It] is very provocative and will no doubt provoke many intellectual debates. * Gilles Bibeau, Universite de Montreal

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Julie Laplante is Associate Professor of Anthropology in the School of Sociological and Anthropological Studies at the University of Ottawa. Senior research fellow at the Max Planck Institute fur etnologische forschung (2006-2010), she has published in numerous journals and is the author of Pouvoir Guerir. Medecines autochtones et humanitaires (Power/Ability to Heal. Indigenous and humanitarian medicine).

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