African local knowledge & livestock health: diseases and treatments in South Africa
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| adam_text | African Local Knowledge
amp; Livestock Health
Diseases amp; Treatments in South Africa
William Beinart
Rhodes Professor of Race Relations
African Studies Centre, University of Oxford
Karen Brown
ESRC Research Fellow
Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine, University if Oxford
WITSUNIVERSITYPRESS
JAMES CURREY
Contents
Acknowledgements viii
Abbreviations x
Names of Common Diseases xi
List of Maps, Photographs amp; Tables xii
Introduction: African Local Knowledge amp; Veterinary Pluralism 1
Key contributions - 2
Context: livestock diseases in South African history 3
Our research 6
Historiography: towards medical and environmental pluralism 12
Local knowledge and its limits 17
Understanding the causes and symptoms of livestock diseases 22
Livestock in African hands 25
Conclusion 30
Ticks, Tick-borne Diseases amp; the Limits of Local Knowledge 32
Introduction 32
Scientific understandings of ticks and efforts at control 34
From state compulsion to individual responsibility — the changing
role of the state in relation to dipping 43
Local knowledge about ticks and tick control 55
Conclusion 66
The Grave of the Cow is in the Stomach :
Environment amp; Nutrition in the Explanation
amp; Prevention of Livestock Diseases 68
Introduction 68
Old and new diseases 73
Identifying infection: (a) the problem of naming 76
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Contents
Identifying infection: (b) contested clinical symptoms and post
mortem findings 80
Ideas about contagion, isolation and immunity 84
Environment and the seasonality of diseases 88
Conclusion 107
Transhumance, Animal Diseases amp; Environment 109
The context of transhumance 109
Transhumance and disease 112
The demise of transhumance: processes and arguments 114
Transhumance and grazing in Mbotyi 116
Trekking between mountains and plains in QwaQwa 126
Cattle posts in NorthWest Province 131
Conclusion 134
Plants amp; Drugs: Medicating Livestock 137
Introduction: plants and biomedicines 137
The transfer of local knowledge: specialists, generations and
gender 140
Transmission of biomedical knowledge and medicine 147
Choices of medicine: local medicines, biomedicines and other
forms of treatment 150
Conclusion 162
Medicinal Plants:Their Selection amp; their Properties 163
Choice of plants 166
Plant medicines in the NorthWest Province 174
Plant medicines in QwaQwa 184
Plant medicines in the Eastern Cape 187
Conclusion 195
Animal Health amp; Ideas of the Supernatural 197
Witchcraft and the ambient supernatural 197
V Animal deaths and diseases associated with witchcraft 201
The ambient supernatural - Umkhondo in Mpondoland 210
Milking and the supernatural in Mbotyi 214
Conclusion 219
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Contents
Gender, Space amp; the Supernatural 221
Introduction 221
Mohato in contemporary cattle-owning communities 225
Ideas about pollution and cattle disease in QwaQwa 228
Practices and challenges 231
Muthi to protect the kraal and the cattle 239
Conclusion 247
Conclusion 248
The dynamics of local knowledge 248
The limits of local knowledge 252
Recommendations for policy and practice 255
Appendices
Appendix 1 Recommendations 256
Appendix 2 African Ideas about Diseases and Conditions
Associated with the Environment 265
Appendix 3 African Ideas about Supernatural Causation 272
Appendix 4 Plants and Diseases 273
Appendix 5 Non-Plant Remedies 284
Select Bibliography 288
Index 293
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