Bodies, politics, and African healing
the matter of maladies in Tanzania
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Author
Publication
2011 - Indiana University Press, Bloomington, Indiana
Language
English
Word Count
75,000 words, Guess
Page Count
300 pages
Identifiers
- Internet Archivebodiespoliticsaf00stac
- ISBN-100253355273
- ISBN-100253222451
- ISBN-139780253355270
- ISBN-139780253222459
and 5 more
- Library of Congress Control Number2010047853
- OCLC Control Number682072155
- Better World Books9780253222459
- Better World Books9780253355270
- Open LibraryOL25030473M
Classifications
- DDC398/.353
- LCCGN477 .L36 2011
- LCCR653
Description
"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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