Bodies, politics, and African healing : the matter of maladies in Tanzania / Stacey A. Langwick.
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TextPublication details: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2011.Description: xiii, 300 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cmISBN: - 9780253355270 (alk. paper)
- 0253355273 (alk. paper)
- 9780253222459 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 0253222451 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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- GN477 .L36 2011
- WB 55.A3
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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.
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