Author: Smet, Peter A.G.M. De.
Title: Different truths. Ethnomedicine in early postcards.
Description: [Amsterdam], KIT Publishers, [2010]. 216 pp. Col. & b./w. ills. Orig. softcover (pictorial wrappers). Published on the occasion of an exhibition at the Tropenmuseum in Amsterdam, from July to November 2009. This book looks at the historical and sociocultural aspects of a privately owned collection of colonial postcards with ethnomedical themes, such as portraits of native healers; supernatural methods of diagnosis and treatment (e.g. divination, exorcism and the application of magical power objects); and natural types of treatment (e.g. herbal medicine, surgical procedures and midwifery). Additional themes include European folk medicine, native animal care, tropical diseases and colonial medicine.

Keywords: Ethnography Medical Medical Africa Asia Etnografie Medisch Medisch Afrika Azië