Bodies, Politics, and African Healing: The Matter of Maladies in Tanzania by Sta

Description: Bodies, Politics, and African Healing by Stacey A. Langwick The therapeutic gap between traditional and modern medicine FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description 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. Notes The therapeutic gap between traditional and modern medicine Author Biography Stacey A. Langwick is Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology at Cornell University. She is a contributor to Borders and Healers (IUP, 2006). Table of Contents AcknowledgmentsA 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 MedicinePart 2. Hailing Traditional Experts 4. Healers and Their Intimate Becomings 5. Traditional Birth Attendants as Institutional EvocationsPart 3. Healing Matters 6. Alternative Materialities 7. Interferences and Inclusions 8. Shifting Existences, or Being and Not-Being Conclusion: Postcolonial Ontological Politics EpilogueGlossaryNotesReferencesIndex Review "Presents in-depth ethnographic information on a timely and relevant topic of long-standing interest, informing practical responses to significant social problems." Tracy J. Luedke, Northeastern Illinois University "Compelling and radical ... stunningly intimate, deeply intellectual, and thoroughly political." Julie Livingston, Rutgers University Promotional The therapeutic gap between traditional and modern medicine Long Description 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. Review Text Anthropologist Langwicks fieldwork in the town of Newala in southeastern Tanzania started in 1998. Shortly after arriving, the author had the good fortune to establish an association with Binti Dadi, a Muslim woman healer, and Mzee Kalimaga, a Christian male healer. For ten months during the initial field stay in 1998-99, Langwick (Cornell) apprenticed with Binti Dadi, even being called Binti Dadi mdogo--little Binti Dadi. She returned to Newala for a couple of months in 2002 and 2003. She carried out her research in KiSwahili and provides a short glossary that translates and clarifies key concepts. A brief prologue sets the scene for the body of the discussion, which covers such topics as witchcraft, oracles, and native medicine; making Tanzanian traditional medicine; healers and their intimate becomings; and traditional birth attendants as institutional evocations. Part 3, Healing Matters, explores alternative materialities, interferences and inclusions, and shifting existences, or being and not-being. There is a short conclusion on postcolonial ontological politics and a brief epilogue incorporating Langwicks newly born daughter into this family. Summing Up: Recommended. Graduate students/faculty/professionals. -- ChoiceB. M. du Toit, emeritus, University of Florida, February 2012 Review Quote "This 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." -Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies Promotional "Headline" The therapeutic gap between traditional and modern medicine Details ISBN0253222451 Author Stacey A. Langwick Short Title BODIES POLITICS & AFRICAN HEAL Publisher Indiana University Press Language English ISBN-10 0253222451 ISBN-13 9780253222459 Media Book Format Paperback Imprint Indiana University Press Subtitle The Matter of Maladies in Tanzania Place of Publication Bloomington, IN Country of Publication United States DEWEY 305.89678 Residence Ithaca, NY Affiliation Cornell University Illustrations 24 b&w illus., 2 maps UK Release Date 2011-06-23 Year 2011 Publication Date 2011-06-23 AU Release Date 2011-06-23 NZ Release Date 2011-06-23 US Release Date 2011-06-23 Pages 320 Alternative 9780253001962 Audience Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:97918020;

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