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

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Langwick, Stacey Ann
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2011]
Subjects:
Anthropology, Cultural > Tanzania.
Medicine, African Traditional > Tanzania.
Medical care > Tanzania.
Traditional medicine > Tanzania.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of 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.