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Ethnomedicine and Ethnobotany of Fright, a Caribbean Culture-bound Psychiatric Syndrome
(Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine, 2010)"Fright" is an English-speaking Caribbean idiom for an illness, or ethnomedical syndrome, of persistent distress. A parallel ethnopsychiatric idiom exists in the French Antilles as sésisma. Fright is distinct from susto ... -
Local Resource Enhancement and Sex-biased Breastfeeding in a Caribbean Community
(Current Anthropology, 2005)Parents often treat sons and daughters differently. Boys are favored in some societies (Messer 1997), but in others girls receive preferential treatment including better medical care and more frequent breastfeeding (Cronk ... -
Obesity and Diabetes. In State Policy Action Plan to Eliminate Health Disparities
(2010-06)The Council develops recommendations to eliminate health disparities by race, ethnicity, and gender. The Council prioritizes health conditions and social detriments of health to identify important topics for its Action ... -
Sidama Agro-Pastoralism and Ethnobiological Classification of its Primary Plant, Enset (Ensete ventricosum)
(Ethnobiology Letters, 2014)Enset is an essential plant for the Ethiopian Sidama system of agropastoralism. Sidama agropastoralism and the folk taxonomy of enset is presented here in ethnographic context. One of several societies of Ethiopia’s enset ... -
Sidama Agro-Pastoralism and Ethnobiological Classification of its Primary Plant, Enset (Ensete ventricosum)
(Ethnobiology Letters, 2014)Enset is an essential plant for the Ethiopian Sidama system of agropastoralism. Sidama agropastoralism and the folk taxonomy of enset is presented here in ethnographic context. One of several societies of Ethiopia’s enset ...