02746oam 22005654a 450 991082025780332120210106224413.00-253-00196-X(CKB)2550000000039538(EBL)713708(OCoLC)747432768(SSID)ssj0000521211(PQKBManifestationID)11306801(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000521211(PQKBWorkID)10517606(PQKB)10642511(MdBmJHUP)muse17126(MiAaPQ)EBC713708(EXLCZ)99255000000003953820101115d2011 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrBodies, Politics, and African Healing[electronic resource] The Matter of Maladies in Tanzania /Stacey A. LangwickBloomington Indiana University Pressc20111 online resource (320 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-253-35527-3 Includes bibliographical references (p. [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.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 pAnthropology, CulturalTanzaniaMedicine, African TraditionalTanzaniaMedical careTanzaniaTraditional medicineTanzaniaElectronic books. Anthropology, CulturalMedicine, African TraditionalMedical careTraditional medicine398/.353Langwick Stacey Ann1685485MdBmJHUPMdBmJHUPBOOK9910820257803321Bodies, Politics, and African Healing4110707UNINA