Stacey A. Langwick 
Bodies, Politics, and African Healing [EPUB ebook] 
The Matter of Maladies in Tanzania

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This subtle and powerful ethnography examines African healing and its relationship to medical science. Stacey A. Langwick investigates the practices of healers in Tanzania who confront the most intractable illnesses in the region, including AIDS and malaria. She reveals how healers generate new therapies and shape the bodies of their patients as they address devils and parasites, anti-witchcraft medicine, and child immunization. Transcending the dualisms between tradition and science, culture and nature, belief and knowledge, Langwick tells a new story about the materiality of healing and postcolonial politics. This important work bridges postcolonial theory, science, public health, and anthropology.

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Acknowledgments
A Note on Translation

Prologue: AIDS, Rats, and Soldiers’ Belts
1. Orientations
Part 1. A Short Genealogy of Traditional Medicine
2. Witchcraft, Oracles, and Native Medicine
3. Making Tanzanian Traditional Medicine

Part 2. Hailing Traditional Experts
4. Healers and Their Intimate Becomings
5. Traditional Birth Attendants as Institutional Evocations

Part 3. Healing Matters
6. Alternative Materialities
7. Interferences and Inclusions
8. Shifting Existences, or Being and Not-Being

Conclusion: Postcolonial Ontological Politics
Epilogue

Glossary
Notes
References
Index

عن المؤلف

Stacey A. Langwick is Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology at Cornell University. She is a contributor to Borders and Healers (IUP, 2006).

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