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

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

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 material...

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1. Verfasser: Langwick, Stacey A. (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:eng
Veröffentlicht: Bloomington, Ind. u.a. Indiana University Press 2011
Schlagworte:
Traditional medicine > Medical care > Medicine, African Traditional > Anthropology, Cultural > Gesundheit > Krankheit > Traditionale Kultur > Volksmedizin > Medizinische Versorgung > Aberglaube > Magie > Tansania > Heiler > Medizin
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Zusammenfassung: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.
Beschreibung:Literaturverz. S. [273] - 290
Beschreibung:XIII, 300 S.
Ill., Kt.
23 cm
ISBN:9780253355270
978-0-253-35527-0
9780253222459
978-0-253-22245-9
0253222451
0-253-22245-1
0253355273
0-253-35527-3