Bodies, politics, and African healing : the matter of maladies in Tanzania /

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Author / Creator:	Langwick, Stacey Ann.
Imprint:	Bloomington : Indiana University Press, ©2011.
Description:	1 online resource (xiii, 300 pages) : illustrations, maps
Language:	English
Series:	Book collections on Project MUSE. UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. Global Cultural Studies.
Subject:	Traditional medicine -- Tanzania. Medical care -- Tanzania. Anthropology, Cultural -- Tanzania. Medicine, African Traditional -- Tanzania. Medical care. Traditional medicine. Tanzania. Electronic book.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11101715

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ISBN:	9780253001962 025300196X 9780253355270 0253355273 9780253222459 0253222451 9780253222565 9780253001405
Digital file characteristics:	data file
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-290) and index. Print version record.
Summary:	"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 postcolonial politics. This important work bridges postcolonial theory, science, public health, and anthropology"--Back cover.
Other form:	Print version: Langwick, Stacey Ann. Bodies, politics, and African healing. Bloomington : Indiana University Press, ©2011 9780253355270

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