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Bodies, politics, and African healing :

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2011.Description: xiii, 300 p. : ill., mapsISBN:
  • 9780253355270 (alk. paper)
  • 0253355273 (alk. paper)
  • 9780253222459 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 0253222451 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • MED GN477 .L36
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.
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Books Books Directorate of Library Services Social Science Collection Shelf #2 MED GN477.L36 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 00000105321

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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