Article ID: CBB000831721

Man Better Man: The Politics of Disappearance (2008)

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The discourses of Antillanité and Créolité are both based on the absence of women. This is more important in the discourse of Créolité since it silences the grandmothers, great aunts and village midwives who are the transmitters of folk tales, folk medicines and oral culture. In the struggle for recognition between Caribbean males and western males folk medicine may be too closely associated with the denigrated female role to be considered a suitable inclusion into modern development.

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Description On the literary culture of the Caribbean that largely excludes females and the results of this on female-transmitted folk medicine.


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Authors & Contributors
Ahmad, Dana
Mulich, Jeppe
Witz, Anne
Trujillo-Pagan, Nicole Elise
Stanton, J.
Sivaramakrishman, Kavita
Concepts
Medicine
Colonialism
Medicine, traditional
Women in medicine
Great Britain, colonies
Cross-cultural interaction; cultural influence
Time Periods
19th century
20th century
18th century
20th century, early
20th century, late
17th century
Places
Caribbean
India
West Indies
Great Britain
Africa
Kuwait
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