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GN477 .L36 2011
GN477
.
L36
2011
کتابخانه
محل استقرار
0253222451
0253355273
9780253222459
9780253355270
dltt
Bodies, politics, and African healing :
[Book]
the matter of maladies in Tanzania /
Stacey A. Langwick
Bloomington :
Indiana University Press,
©2011
xiii, 300 pages :
illustrations, maps ;
24 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-290) and index
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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"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
Medical care-- Tanzania
Traditional medicine-- Tanzania
Anthropology, Cultural
Medicine, African Traditional
Tanzania
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GN477
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L36
2011
Langwick, Stacey Ann
20171201120507.0
مطالعه متن کتاب [Book]
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