Breaking leaves
"In the Haitian countryside, where people have little access to doctors, hospitals, or conventional medicine, peasants have learned to use local leaves, herbs, and therapeutic massage as a way of curing simple ailments. This video follows several men and women as they take us into the bush to l...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | Haitian |
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New York, NY
Filmakers Library
2000, 2000
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| Series: | Ethnographic video online, volume 1
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| Collection: | Ethnographic Video Online Vol. 1 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
| Summary: | "In the Haitian countryside, where people have little access to doctors, hospitals, or conventional medicine, peasants have learned to use local leaves, herbs, and therapeutic massage as a way of curing simple ailments. This video follows several men and women as they take us into the bush to look for leaves that they need for healing. We then follow them home where they explain and demonstrate their way of preparing the poultice or infusion."--Original container |
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| Item Description: | Subtitle on original container: Herbal medicine in Haiti |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (30 min.) |