Bodies, politics, and African healing :
Langwick, Stacey Ann.
Bodies, politics, and African healing : - Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2011. - xiii, 300 p. : ill., maps ;
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.
9780253355270 (alk. paper) 0253355273 (alk. paper) 9780253222459 (pbk. : alk. paper) 0253222451 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Traditional medicine
Medical care
Medicine, African Traditional
Anthropology, Cultural
MED GN477 / .L36
Bodies, politics, and African healing : - Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2011. - xiii, 300 p. : ill., maps ;
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.
9780253355270 (alk. paper) 0253355273 (alk. paper) 9780253222459 (pbk. : alk. paper) 0253222451 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Traditional medicine
Medical care
Medicine, African Traditional
Anthropology, Cultural
MED GN477 / .L36