Bodies, Politics, and African Healing [[electronic resource] ] : The Matter of Maladies in Tanzania / / Stacey A. Langwick

• Autore: Langwick Stacey Ann
• Pubblicazione: Bloomington, : Indiana University Press, c2011
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (320 p.)
• Disciplina: 398/.353
• Soggetto topico: Anthropology, Cultural - Tanzania; Medicine, African Traditional - Tanzania; Medical care - Tanzania; Traditional medicine - Tanzania
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [273]-290) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 p
• Titolo autorizzato: Bodies, Politics, and African Healing
• ISBN: 0-253-00196-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910781310203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II