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Bodies, Politics, and African Healing

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

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Publisher's Synopsis

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.

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Book information

ISBN: 9780253222459
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Imprint: Indiana University Press
Pub date:
DEWEY: 615.8809678
DEWEY edition: 22
Language: English
Number of pages: 304
Weight: 448g
Height: 228mm
Width: 157mm
Spine width: 21mm