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Borders and Healers

Borders and Healers Brokering Therapeutic Resources in Southeast Africa

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In southeast Africa, the power to heal is often associated with crossing borders, whether literal or metaphorical. This wide-ranging volume reveals that healers, whose power depends on the ability to broker therapeutic resources, also contribute to the construction of the borders they transgress. While addressing diverse healing practices such as herbalism, razor-blade vaccination, spirit possession, prophetic healing, missionary health clinics, and traumatic storytelling, the nine lively and provocative essays in Borders and Healers explore the creativity and resilience of the region's healers and those they heal in a world shaped by economic stagnation, declining state commitments to health care, and the AIDS pandemic. This important book contributes to understandings of the ways in which healing practices in southeast Africa mediate divides between the wealthy and the impoverished, the traditional and the modern, the local and the global.

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Indiana University Press

Book information

ISBN: 9780253346636
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Imprint: Indiana University Press
Pub date:
DEWEY: 398.353
DEWEY edition: 22
Language: English
Number of pages: 223
Weight: 503g
Height: 234mm
Width: 158mm
Spine width: 25mm