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Langwick, Stacey Ann.

Bodies, politics, and African healing : the matter of maladies in Tanzania / Stacey A. Langwick. - Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2011. - xiii, 300 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.

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.

ISBN: 9780253355270 (alk. paper) 0253355273 (alk. paper) 9780253222459 (pbk. : alk. paper) 0253222451 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN: 2010047853

Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: 101547511 DNLM

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Traditional medicine--Tanzania.
Medical care--Tanzania.
Medicine, African Traditional--Tanzania.
Anthropology, Cultural--Tanzania.

LC Class. No.: GN477 / .L36 2011

Dewey Class. No.: 398/.353

National Library of Medicine Call No.: WB 55.A3