The Politics of Labels: Imperial Categorisations and the Marginalisation of Ethnomedicine in Nigeria during the Twentieth Century
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DOI: 10.1093/shm/hkaa090
Abstract: The names imposed on traditional medical institutions in colonial Nigeria criminalised and designated ethnomedical practitioners as quacks, charlatans and ‘witch doctors’ whose practices lacked merit. These labels shifted throughout the colonial and post-colonial era based… read more here.
Keywords: medicine; colonial; twentieth century; ethnomedicine nigeria ... See more keywords