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Bush Medicine of the Bahamas
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Event Type(s):
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Lecture / Workshop, Literary
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Organization:
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JMRL: Scottsville Library
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Description:
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Second Saturday Series:
BUSH MEDICINE OF THE BAHAMAS: A Cross-cultural Perspective from San Salvador Island, including Pharmacology and Oral Histories by Jeff McCormack.
The author has worked in the fields of sustainable energy and agriculture, genetic preservation, plant breeding, ethnobotany, and oral history. Using oral history techniques to document a unique form of plant medicine practiced in the Bahamas, his talk will focus on the origins of bush medicine and what this form of medicine can teach us.
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Address:
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JMRL Scottsville Library
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330 Bird Street
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Scottsville, Virginia 24590
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Date:
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Saturday, 2/11/2012
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Start Time:
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4:00 PM
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End Time:
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5:00 PM
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