Download or read book Faito o Fakatonga The Visual Practice of Traditional Medicine Making and Healing Practices From Tonga to Aotearoa written by Malia Lesieli Finau and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This project is a moving image art project using the concept of Veitalatala (poetic documentary) (as defined by Talita Toluta’u (2014) that will explore faito’o (traditional medicine) and kau faito’o (native doctors), the practice of medicine making and healing practices from the Pacific to Aotearoa . This project will focus on telling stories of the Tongan matrilineal history of faito’o, the passing on of knowledge and how this is maintained today. I am a first generation New Zealand born Tongan living in Aotearoa. I will first explore the medicinal plants and their cultivation, how they are used and made into medicines in the country of origin, Tonga, then explore the new and different plants that are used by the kau faito’o in Aotearoa. This project focuses on traditional medicine making and healing practice from the Pacific to Aotearoa by exploring the hands of expert medicine makers and how processes of making are repeated, with bodily tacit knowledge. This research has developed into an interest in how practices are culturally maintained across generations in the Pacific. The time it takes to make medicine from plants and the patience of the maker are explored poetically through duration and extended footage. Narratives of making and of plant knowledge in particular are the focus of this project.

Download or read book Faito o Fakatonga written by Malia Lesieli Finau and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Author supplied keywords: Traditonal; Installation; Faito'o fakatonga; Acceptance; Matrilineage; Moving image.

Download or read book Faito o written by Lesieli Finau and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Illness and Cure in Tonga written by Siosiane Fanua Bloomfield and published by [email protected]. This book was released on 2002 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Tongan Herbal Medicine written by W. Arthur Whistler and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 1992-01-01 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I highly recommend this brief resource booklet for those interested in studying Polynesian and cross-cultural herbal medicines." --Quarterly Review of Biology

Download or read book Healing Practices in the South Pacific written by Claire D. Parsons and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 1985-01-01 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Kau Faito o Traditional Healers of Tonga written by Joseph Ostraff and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a documentary, which not only shows the ancient traditional art form of healing but also tries to capture the essence of being a traditional healer in an ever-changing environment. Traditional healers are shown collecting, preparing and administering herbal remedies that they have passed down from one generation to the next.

Download or read book Ho oponopono written by Malcolm Nāea Chun and published by CRDG. This book was released on 2006 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Pono is about the importance of living a life of goodness. But what happens when that struggle is knocked out of balance? The cultural practice of restoring this goodness to what it once was is called ho'oponopono, now a widely known and respected part of Native Hawaiian culture. But without the advocacy of Mary Kawena Pukui and the Queen Lili'uokalani Children's Center, ho'oponopono might well have been forgotten. Malcolm Näea Chun traces the practice of ho'oponopono back to the earliest traditional accounts, taking the reader on a journey through the practice's acceptance in academic circles, and its institutionalization into health and social practices in modern Hawai'i"--Publisher's description.

Download or read book A Handbook on African Traditional Healing Approaches Research Practices written by Njoki Wane and published by . This book was released on 2013-11 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: " A Handbook on African Traditional Healing Approaches & Research Practices " is a rich collection of well-researched articles on indigenous healing. These articles, from a broad range of researchers, pertain to a broad range of communities. They discuss healing practices in the realm of the spiritual, the medicinal, nutritional and more. Some demonstrate a clear relationship between modern and traditional medicine through pharmacological analysis. The practical examples documented capture the effectiveness of indigenous healing as practised by a large number of societies. That indigenous healing practices face the risk extinction is a theme that runs through the contributions. Indeed, without practical (and urgent) steps to preserve such knowledge for posterity, future generations will not have the benefit of time-tested knowledge such as this. The risk of loss of such knowledge that has been passed down generations would be a major loss to humankind. This collection, in part, addresses that risk through systematic research and documentation. What others say " "We have always known that divine law and scientific law are connected, and more important than just knowing it, we live it. This book reaffirms our need to view life cosmologically." " - Kai ner Maa Pitanta, Toronto, Canada " "This book is a must read for anyone who believes that one can blindly trust the foods we eat and the medicines that are "supposed" to heal us. It is enlightening to know that there are natural cures for most things and that we have had the answers to many of our illnesses from the beginning of time." " - Natasha Burford, University of Toronto, Canada " "This work, in part, addresses the debate with respect to the value of traditional healing practices. It is must read for everyone concerned about the society's health, especially in the face of documented limitations of western medicine." " - Matunda Nyanchama, ICT Professional and Publisher

Download or read book Bodies Politics and African Healing written by Stacey A. Langwick and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2011-06-23 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This subtle and powerful ethnography examines African healing and its relationship to medical science. Stacey A. Langwick investigates the practices of healers in Tanzania who confront the most intractable illnesses in the region, including AIDS and malaria. She reveals how healers generate new therapies and shape the bodies of their patients as they address devils and parasites, anti-witchcraft medicine, and child immunization. Transcending the dualisms between tradition and science, culture and nature, belief and knowledge, Langwick tells a new story about the materiality of healing and postcolonial politics. This important work bridges postcolonial theory, science, public health, and anthropology.

Download or read book An Ethnobotanical Study of Traditional Medicine in Tonga written by Lisa O'Rourke George and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Traditional Healing and Pacificans written by Sitaleki A. Finau and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Some Contributions of Traditional Healing Practices Towards Psychosocial Health Care in Malawi written by Karl Peltzer and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book M ori Healing and Herbal written by Murdoch Riley and published by . This book was released on 1994-01 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive study of the healing arts of the Maori from the time before contact with Europeans till the present. One section lists individual diseases and injuries in alphabetical order, describing traditional treatments and frequently referring to aspects of Maori astronomy and religion. The bulk of the book is a herbal, giving descriptions of more than 200 plants and their uses. References to material recorded in print is given in chronological order. For many plants there is a discussion of relationships with botanical families to which the plant belongs and a description of medicinal uses through other parts of the world. There are more than 200 colour plates.

Download or read book Healing in Community written by Susan J. Rasmussen and published by Praeger. This book was released on 2001-07-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring the multiple communities of healing among the Tuareg people of Niger, this work examines the beliefs and practices that surround healing and the quest for medicine. In studying ideals of healing that face challenges from wider political and economic forces, the author enables us to understand these culturally and historically constructed processes. This leads us to comprehend how many Tuareg construct and deconstruct local notions of medicine and healers, how patients cope with current problems in health care, and more broadly, how medical knowledge is constructed in anthropology and ethnography. Rasmussen reveals new perspectives on healing in systems of power and symbolism, bridging interpretive cultural and political economy approaches. This book explores the consequences and implications of the idea that in order to obtain medicine, one must submit to authority, but proceeds beyond merely demonstrating this idea, already largely a truism in anthropology. The Tuareg data show how local residents are not passive victims, but rather active agents in responding to and resisting authority structures of medicine and medical knowledge.

Download or read book Tongan Culture and History written by Phyllis Herda and published by Steve Parish. This book was released on 1990 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: