Langwick, Stacey Ann.

Bodies, politics, and African healing the matter of maladies in Tanzania / [electronic resource] : Stacey A. Langwick. - Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2011. - xii, 300 p. : ill.

Includes bibliographical references 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.


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Palo Alto, Calif. :
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2011.
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Traditional medicine--Tanzania.
Medical care--Tanzania.


Electronic books.

GN477 / .L36 2011eb

398/.353