Kumar Mahabir

This book discusses the relationship between traditional healers and modern healthcare practitioners in Trinidad and Tobago. It focuses on folk masseuses, andthe new mothers and newborns they treat. The two medical systems are presented in the context of racial, ethnic, class and gender dynamics which give rise to issues of power and control. The study is located in the political-economic context of the Third World which has a history of dependency on foreign goods and services which has been rooted in the plantation economy.

Kumar Mahabir

is a full-time anthropologist at the University of Guyana (UG) and Fellow of The Eccles Centre for American Studies, British Library (2022-23). He is a former Assistant Professor at the University of Trinidad and Tobago (UTT). He obtained his Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of Florida (UF). As a doctoral student, he won a Florida Caribbean Institute Award, an A. Curtis Wilgus Grant, and an Organization of American States (OAS) Fellowship.
Mahabir received a National Award (Hummingbird Silver Medal) for his contribution to education in his country in 2011. He was among 50 recipients who received a Distinguished Alumni Award from the UWI Alumni Association.
Mahabir is the author of 12 books to date.

Traditional Medicine and Women Healers in Trinidad:
Postnatal Health Care

Kumar Mahabir

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