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Julie Laplante’s Healing Roots: Anthropology in Life and Medicine<\/em> is available for review.<\/p>\n “Umhlonyane<\/em>, also known as Artemisia afra<\/em>, 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 \u201cmedicine,\u201d thus easily making its way into people\u2019s lives and becoming the choice of everyday healing for Xhosa healer-diviners and Rastafarian herbalists. This \u201cnatural\u201d remedy has recently sparked curiosity as scientists search for new molecules against a tuberculosis pandemic while hoping to recognize indigenous medicine. Laplante follows umhlonyane<\/em> on its trails and trials of becoming a biopharmaceutical \u2014 from the \u201copen air\u201d to controlled environments \u2014 learning from the plant and from the people who use it with hopes in healing.”\u00a0http:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/title.php?rowtag=LaplanteHealing<\/a><\/p>\n Those with interest and expertise in this area and who would like to contribute a review on the title to The Reading Room<\/em> are invited to contact the editor [columba.quigley@btinternet.com] for further details.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Julie Laplante’s Healing Roots: Anthropology in Life and Medicine is available for review. “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 \u201cmedicine,\u201d thus easily making its way into people\u2019s lives and […]<\/p>\n