Bodies, politics, and African healing : the matter of maladies in Tanzania /

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"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 ne...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Langwick, Stacey Ann
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, ©2011.
Subjects:
Traditional medicine > Tanzania.
Medical care > Tanzania.
Ethnology.
Anthropology, Cultural
Medicine, African Traditional
Ethnology
Ethnologie.
social anthropology.
ethnology.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Folklore & Mythology.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
Medical care
Traditional medicine
Tanzania
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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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