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Bodies, Politics, and African Healing
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.
An Anthropology of Biomedicine
In this fully revised and updated second edition of An Anthropology of Biomedicine, authors Lock and Nguyen introduce biomedicine from an anthropological perspective, exploring the entanglement of material bodies with history, environment, culture, and politics. Drawing on historical and ethnographic work, the book critiques the assumption made by the biological sciences of a universal human body that can be uniformly standardized. It focuses on the ways in which the application of biomedical technologies brings about radical changes to societies at large based on socioeconomic inequalities and ethical disputes, and develops and integrates the theory that the human body in health and illness...
Medicines That Feed Us
"Medicines That Feed Us examines the relationship between toxicity and remedy in the face of the intertwined health and environmental crises that have shaped the twenty-first century. Through ethnographic work with organizations that use plant-based healing and farming practices in Tanzania, Stacey A. Langwick asks: what does it mean to heal in a toxic world? Langwick proposes the Tanzanian phrase dawa lishe, or medicines that feed us, as a system of understanding how plant medicines can better align bodies with the earth. This conceptualization of medicine runs counter to Western medicine's conceptualization of health as separate from the earth and the modern agricultural, industrial, and land management practices that impact it. Rather than representing a return to "traditional" African healing, dawa lishe draws from both local and contemporary knowledges to craft a holistic approach to plant medicine, as well as its production, distribution, and administration. The practitioners and NGOs that Langwick follows offer alternative ways of living and dying, growing and decaying, composing and decomposing that acknowledge the interdependence of bodily and ecological health."--
Circulation and Governance of Asian Medicine
This book unpacks the organized sets of practices that govern contemporary Asian medicine, from production of medications in the lab to their circulation within circuits and networks of all kinds, and examines the plurality of actors involved in such governance. Chapters analyze the process of industrialization and commercialization of Asian medicine and the ways in which the expansion of the market in Asian medicines has contributed to the inscription of products within a large system of governance, greatly dominated by global actors and the biomedical hegemony. At the same time, the contributors argue that local actors continue to play a major role in reshaping the regulations and their im...
How Do Biomedicines Shape People's Lives, Socialities and Landscapes?
Experiences of HIV/AIDS projects -- Reactions to biomedicines -- Temporality and spatiality.
Perspectives on Interculturality
The intercultural occurs in the space between two or more distinct cultures that encounter each other, an area where meanings are translated and difference is negotiated. In this volume, scholars from diverse disciplines reflect on the phenomenon of interculturality and on the theoretical and methodological frameworks of interpreting it
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Becoming Muslim in Mainland Tanzania, 1890-2000
Tanzania has moved from widespread conversion to Islam in the early twentieth century to recent bitter disputes over Islamic radicalism. Using a combination of government, mission and oral records, this volume examines the intellectual and social forces behind these transitions.
