![]() Working The Roots will be available to purchase in late 2011. An index of roots, herbs and their curative properties is also included. ![]() Ms.Lee also shares 7 generations of healing traditions passed down to her from her New Orleans and Port Gibson, MS. The book spins together stories from each healer and is filled with medical knowledge, anecdotal information and wit, told in authentic southern vernacular. This life changing experience for the Oakland,CA native resulted in the book, Working The Roots: Stories of Traditional Healing & Healthy Living in the Black American South. From 1996-2002 she documented this oral tradition and interviewed and learned from 16 healers (spanning 8 southern states) using a tape recorder and camera. Michele Elizabeth Lee lived in rural North Carolina for 6 years running an artist residency and learning the tradition of Black folk medicine. ![]()
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