Bodies, Politics, and African Healing - The Matter of Maladies in Tanzania

Informationen zum Autor Stacey A. Langwick is Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology at Cornell University. She is a contributor to Borders and Healers (IUP, 2006). Klappentext This important work bridges postcolonial theory, science, public health, and anthropology. Zusammenfassung The therapeutic gap between traditional and modern medicine Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments A Note on Translation Prologue: AIDS, Rats, and Soldiers' Belts 1. Orientations Part 1. A Short Genealogy of Traditional Medicine 2. Witchcraft, Oracles, and Native Medicine 3. Making Tanzanian Traditional Medicine Part 2. Hailing Traditional Experts 4. Healers and Their Intimate Becomings 5. Traditional Birth Attendants as Institutional Evocations Part 3. Healing Matters 6. Alternative Materialities 7. Interferences and Inclusions 8. Shifting Existences, or Being and Not-Being Conclusion: Postcolonial Ontological Politics Epilogue Glossary Notes References Index

Product details

• Authors: Stacey A Langwick, Stacey A. Langwick, Stacey Ann Langwick
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 23.06.2011
• EAN: 9780253222459
• ISBN: 978-0-253-22245-9
• No. of pages: 320
• Series: Indiana University Press (IPS)
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Holistic medicine; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories