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Bodies, politics, and African healing : the matter of maladies in Tanzania / Stacey A. Langwick

Bloomington : Indiana University Press, (c)2011

Online Ressource (xiii, 300 pages) : illustrations, maps

Englisch

Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-290) and index. - Description based on print version record

Erscheint auch als: Langwick, Stacey Ann : Bodies, politics, and African healing. - Bloomington : Indiana University Press, ©2011 (Druck-Ausgabe)

978-0-253-00196-2 (electronic bk.); 0-253-00196-X (electronic bk.)

978-0-253-35527-0 (ISBN der Printausgabe); 0-253-35527-3 (ISBN der Printausgabe); 978-0-253-22245-9 (ISBN der Printausgabe); 0-253-22245-1 (ISBN der Printausgabe); 978-0-253-22256-5 (ISBN der Printausgabe); 978-0-253-00140-5 (ISBN der Printausgabe); 978-0-253-35527-0 (ISBN der Printausgabe)

OCoLC: 747432768 (aus SWB)     

Online-Ausg.

Elektronische Ressource: Zugang über Aggregator-Datenbank (Lizenzangabe: Lizenzpflichtig)

GN477

398.353 ; 398/.353     Ähnliche Literatur

bisacsh: SOC011000 ; bisacsh: SOC 011000 ; bisacsh: MED078000 ; bisacsh: SOC002010

LOC-SH: Traditional medicine -- Tanzania ; Medical care -- Tanzania ; Electronic books ; Traditional medicine -- Tanzania ; Medical care -- Tanzania ; Electronic book

MeSH: Anthropology, Cultural / Tanzania ; Medicine, African Traditional / Tanzania / Tanzania ; Anthropology, Cultural ; Medicine, African Traditional

Electronic books ; Tanzania ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Folklore & Mythology ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; Cultural ; Medical care ; Traditional medicine ; Medicine ; Anthropology ; Social Sciences ; Health & Biological Sciences ; History of Medicine ; Social & Cultural Anthropology

"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