Bodies, politics, and African healing the matter of maladies in Tanzania / Stacey A. Langwick.

Author/creator Langwick, Stacey Ann
Format Electronic
Publication InfoBloomington : Indiana University Press,
Descriptionxiii, 300 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
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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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [273]-290) and index.
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Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2010047853
ISBN9780253355270 (alk. paper)
ISBN0253355273 (alk. paper)
ISBN9780253222459 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN0253222451 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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