Bodies, politics, and African healing

the matter of maladies in Tanzania

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Bodies, politics, and African healing

the matter of maladies in Tanzania

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Language
English
Pages
300

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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.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. [273]-290) and index.

Published in
Bloomington

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
398/.353
Library of Congress
GN477 .L36 2011, R653

The Physical Object

Pagination
xiii, 300 p. :
Number of pages
300

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL25030473M
Internet Archive
bodiespoliticsaf00stac
ISBN 10
0253355273, 0253222451
ISBN 13
9780253355270, 9780253222459
LCCN
2010047853
OCLC/WorldCat
682072155

Work Identifiers

Work ID
OL16149001W

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