Bodies, politics, and African healing [electronic resource] : the matter of maladies in Tanzania / Stacey A. Langwick.
Langwick, Stacey Ann.
2011
GN477 .L36 2011eb
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Title
Bodies, politics, and African healing [electronic resource] : the matter of maladies in Tanzania / Stacey A. Langwick.
Author
Langwick, Stacey Ann.
ISBN
9780253001962 (electronic bk.)
025300196X (electronic bk.)
9780253001405 (electronic bk.)
0253001404 (electronic bk.)
9780253355270
0253355273
9780253222459 (pbk.)
0253222451 (pbk.)
Publication Details
Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2011.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xiii, 300 p.) : ill., maps.
Call Number
GN477 .L36 2011eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
398/.353
Summary
"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.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [273]-290) and index.
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Bodies, politics, and African healing.
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A short genealogy of traditional medicine
Witchcraft, oracles, and native medicine
Making Tanzanian traditional medicine
Hailing traditional experts
Healers and their intimate becomings
Traditional birth attendants as institutional evocations
Healing matters
Alternative materialities
Interferences and inclusions
Shifting existences, or being and not-being.

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