Bodies, Politics, and African Healing: The Matter of Maladies in Tanzania - Couverture souple

Langwick, Stacey A.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0253222451 ISBN 13 : 9780253222459

Editeur : Indiana University Press, 2011

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Stacey A. Langwick is Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology at Cornell University. She is a contributor to Borders and Healers (IUP, 2006).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Indiana University Press
• Date d'édition: 2011
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0253222451
• ISBN 13: 9780253222459
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 300
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible