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Bodies, politics, and African healing the matter of maladies in Tanzania
Author
Title
Bodies, politics, and African healing [electronic resource] : the matter of maladies in Tanzania / Stacey A. Langwick.
ISBN
025300196X
9780253001962
0253222451 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0253355273 (alk. paper)
9780253222459 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780253355270 (alk. paper)
Published
Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2011. (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2012)
Physical Description
1 online resource (xiii, 300 p. :) ill., maps ;
Local Notes
Access is available to the Yale community.
Notes
Description based on print version record.
Access and use
Access restricted by licensing agreement.
Variant and related titles
Project MUSE - UPCC 2010-2012 Current Complete Collection Bundle.
Project MUSE - UPCC 2011 Current Complete Collection.
Project MUSE - UPCC 2011 Global Cultural Studies Collection.
UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
July 31, 2012
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. [273]-290) and index.
Contents
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.
Subjects
Subjects (Medical)
Medicine, African Traditional - Tanzania.
Anthropology, Cultural - Tanzania.
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