Mumbo

[…] study or practice. in early 20th century, the professionals of indian ethnomedicine were demoralized and crippled and western educated indians looked down upon traditional indian medicine as mere mumbo jumbo. however, during these dark hours as well, the spirit of ayurveda was kept alive by pioneers like gananath sen from kolkata, lakshmipathy from chennai, p. s. varier from kottakkal […]

[…] february 1969. of course the witchdoctor trope was not novel. on the cinematic use of the witchdoctor as a marker of enduring african primitivism and fragile african modernity, see wendy webster, ‘mumbo-jumbo, magic and modernity: africa in british cinema 1946-65’, in grieveson and maccabe, film and the end of empire, 237–50; philip zachernuk, ‘who needs a witch-doctor? refiguring british […]

[…] journal in 1961,let us not pander to morbid curiosity and sensationalism, nor to those featherbrains who wish to be in the van of a new fashion, by encouraging a highly unnatural trend with the mumbo-jumbo of pseudo psychology. the proper place for the father, if not at work, is the ‘local,’ whither instinct will usually guide him. family men may be baby-sitting, unless ejected […]

[…] mdm2, a principle regulator of the tumor suppressor p53, plays an integral role in regulating cellular levels of p53 and thus a prominent role in current cancer research. computational analysis used mumbo to rotamerize the mdm2-p53 crystal structure 1ycr to obtain an exhaustive search of point mutations, resulting in the calculation of the δδg comprehensive energy landscape for the p53-bound […]

[…] the hippy peace sign or other “gangsta” hand signals (). the reaction of parents and sonographers upon seeing this is special., parental and family bonding is enhanced. is this just some psycho mumbo‐jumbo? no, i think it's real, and comes at a time when sometimes there may be extra strains within a relationship, or within a family. mum knows she is pregnant and feels the babe, but now dad […]