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Author Langwick, Stacey Ann.

Title Bodies, politics, and African healing [electronic resource] : the matter of maladies in Tanzania / Stacey A. Langwick.

Imprint Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2011.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe ProQuest E-Book  Electronic Book    ---  Available
Description xii, 300 p. : ill.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Traditional medicine -- Tanzania.
Medical care -- Tanzania.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 9780253222565
9780253355270 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780253222459 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780253001405 (electronic bk.)

 
    
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