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200 10$aBodies, Politics, and African Healing$b[electronic resource] $eThe Matter of Maladies in Tanzania /$fStacey A. Langwick
210   $aBloomington $cIndiana University Press$dc2011
215   $a1 online resource (320 p.)
300   $aDescription based upon print version of record.
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320   $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [273]-290) and index.
327   $aA 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.
330   $aThis 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 p
606   $aAnthropology, Cultural$zTanzania
606   $aMedicine, African Traditional$zTanzania
606   $aMedical care$zTanzania
606   $aTraditional medicine$zTanzania
608   $aElectronic books. 
615 22$aAnthropology, Cultural
615 12$aMedicine, African Traditional
615  0$aMedical care
615  0$aTraditional medicine
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