Bodies, politics, and African healing [electronic resource] : the matter of maladies in Tanzania / Stacey A. Langwick.

Bodies, politics, and African healing [electronic resource] : the matter of maladies in Tanzania / Stacey A. Langwick.

9780253001962 (electronic bk.)
025300196X (electronic bk.)
9780253001405 (electronic bk.)
0253001404 (electronic bk.)
9780253355270
0253355273
9780253222459 (pbk.)
0253222451 (pbk.)

Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2011.

English

1 online resource (xiii, 300 p.) : ill., maps.

GN477 .L36 2011eb

398/.353

"This subtle and powerful ethnography examines African healing and its relationship to medical science. Stacey A. Langwick investigates the practices of healers in Tanzania who confront the most intractable illnesses in the region, including AIDS and malaria. She reveals how healers generate new therapies and shape the bodies of their patients as they address devils and parasites, anti-witchcraft medicine, and child immunization. Transcending the dualisms between tradition and science, culture and nature, belief and knowledge, Langwick tells a new story about the materiality of healing and postcolonial politics. This important work bridges postcolonial theory, science, public health, and anthropology"--Back cover.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [273]-290) and index.

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