Bodies, Politics, and African Healing : The Matter of Maladies in Tanzania / Stacey A. Langwick.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Langwick, Stacey Ann.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Anthropology, Cultural--Tanzania.

Medicine, African Traditional--Tanzania.

Medical care--Tanzania.

Medical care.

Traditional medicine--Tanzania.

Traditional medicine.

Medical Subjects:

Anthropology, Cultural--Tanzania.

Medicine, African Traditional--Tanzania.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (320 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2011.

Language Note:

English

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 p

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

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

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780253001962

025300196X

OCLC:

747432768