Bodies, Politics, and African Healing The Matter of Maladies in Tanzania / [Recurso electrónico] :
Stacey A. Langwick.
- Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 2011.
- 1 online resource (xiii, 300 p. :) ill., maps ;
- Book collections on Project MUSE. .
Includes bibliographical references (p. [273]-290) and index.
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.
Libro Electrónico
9780253001962 025300196X
Anthropology, Cultural--Tanzania. Medicine, African Traditional--Tanzania. Medical care--Tanzania. Traditional medicine--Tanzania.