{"product_id":"bodies-politics-and-african-healing-9780253222459","title":"Bodies Politics and African Healing","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe therapeutic gap between traditional and modern medicine\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eBodies, Politics, and African Healing is a bold and imaginative account that deserves to be read not only as an ethnography of medical pluralities in postcolonial Tanzania but also as an exemplary investigation into the field of ontological politics that unsettles deep-seated assumptions about truth and power. It will change the way many anthropologists think and write about medical ontologies in Africa and elsewhere.\u003c\/p\u003e * Anthropology and Humanism *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book contributes to the understanding of traditional medicine in a contemporary African setting. It makes clear the inequalities that shape the space under which healers must operate, and their efforts to work this to their advantage.\u003c\/p\u003e * Anthropos *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is an important and convincing reframing not only of the meaning of healing in postcolonial Tanzania, but also of what healing does. Bodies, Politics, and African Healing successfully challenges us to reconsider the very way in which we think about African healing.\u003c\/p\u003e * Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eStacey Langwick draws on the insights raised by science technology studies and anthropological–historical analyses to reconsider what health and healing means in the town–district of Newala, situated on the edge of the Makonde Plateau, in southeastern Tanzania. . . She pushes readers to consider seriously how healers bring into material being the often unseen entities from other realms, an important part of their therapeutic practice39.2 May 2012\u003c\/p\u003e * American Ethnologist *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003eA Note on Translation\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Prologue: AIDS, Rats, and Soldiers' Belts\u003cbr\u003e 1. Orientations\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003ePart 1. A Short Genealogy of Traditional Medicine\u003cbr\u003e 2. Witchcraft, Oracles, and Native Medicine\u003cbr\u003e 3. Making Tanzanian Traditional Medicine\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart 2. Hailing Traditional Experts\u003cbr\u003e 4. Healers and Their Intimate Becomings\u003cbr\u003e 5. Traditional Birth Attendants as Institutional Evocations\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart 3. Healing Matters\u003cbr\u003e 6. Alternative Materialities\u003cbr\u003e 7. Interferences and Inclusions\u003cbr\u003e 8. Shifting Existences, or Being and Not-Being\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Conclusion: Postcolonial Ontological Politics\u003cbr\u003e Epilogue\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGlossary\u003cbr\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003eReferences\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Indiana University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49400666620247,"sku":"9780253222459","price":18.89,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780253222459.jpg?v=1730471244","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/bodies-politics-and-african-healing-9780253222459","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}