Healing Roots

<ul> <li> Detailed study compiled by an accomplished anthropological scholar of one of the oldest indigenous medicines in South Africa.</li> <li> Laplante situates African and Western knowledge systems against one another.</li> <li> The author follows the journey of the plant on its transition to the controlled environments of Western medicine.</li> <li> Offers an anthropologocal study of both the plant and the people who place their hopes in it.</li></ul>