Tracy J. Luedke / Harry G. West
Borders and Healers
Brokering Therapeutic Resources in Southeast Africa
Herausgeber: Luedke, Tracy J; West, Harry G
Tracy J. Luedke / Harry G. West
Borders and Healers
Brokering Therapeutic Resources in Southeast Africa
Herausgeber: Luedke, Tracy J; West, Harry G
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This important book contributes to understandings of the ways in which healing practices in southeast Africa mediate divides between the wealthy and the impoverished, the traditional and the modern, the local and the global.
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This important book contributes to understandings of the ways in which healing practices in southeast Africa mediate divides between the wealthy and the impoverished, the traditional and the modern, the local and the global.
Produktdetails
- Produktdetails
- Verlag: Indiana University Press
- Seitenzahl: 240
- Erscheinungstermin: 2. Februar 2006
- Englisch
- Abmessung: 237mm x 156mm x 24mm
- Gewicht: 385g
- ISBN-13: 9780253218056
- ISBN-10: 0253218055
- Artikelnr.: 22100251
- Verlag: Indiana University Press
- Seitenzahl: 240
- Erscheinungstermin: 2. Februar 2006
- Englisch
- Abmessung: 237mm x 156mm x 24mm
- Gewicht: 385g
- ISBN-13: 9780253218056
- ISBN-10: 0253218055
- Artikelnr.: 22100251
Tracy J. Luedke is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Northeastern Illinois University. Harry G. West is lecturer in Anthropology at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. He is author of Kupilikula: Governance and the Invisible Realm in Mozambique.
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Healing Divides: Therapeutic Border Work in Southeast
AfricaHarry G. West and Tracy J. Luedke
1. Working the Borders to Beneficial Effect: The Not-So-Indigenous
Knowledge of Not-So-Traditional Healers in Northern MozambiqueHarry G. West
2. Presidents, Bishops, and Mothers: The Construction of Authority in
Mozambican HealingTracy J. Luedke
3. Of Markets and Medicine: The Changing Significance of Zimbabwean Muti in
the Age of Intensified GlobalizationDavid Simmons
4. Money, Modernity, and Morality: Traditional Healing and the Expansion of
the Holy Spirit in MozambiqueJames Pfeiffer
5. Transnational Images of Pentecostal Healing: Comparative Examples from
Malawi and BotswanaRijk van Dijk
6. From HIV/AIDS to Ukimwi: Narrating Local Accounts of a Cure Julian M.
Murchison
7. Geographies of Medicine: Interrogating the Boundary between
"Traditional" and "Modern" Medicine in Colonial TanganyikaStacey Langwick
8. Shifting Geographies of Suffering and Recovery: Traumatic Storytelling
after ApartheidChristopher J. Colvin
Afterword: Ethnographic Regions-Healing, Power, and HistorySteven Feierman
References Cited
Contributors
Index
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Healing Divides: Therapeutic Border Work in Southeast
AfricaHarry G. West and Tracy J. Luedke
1. Working the Borders to Beneficial Effect: The Not-So-Indigenous
Knowledge of Not-So-Traditional Healers in Northern MozambiqueHarry G. West
2. Presidents, Bishops, and Mothers: The Construction of Authority in
Mozambican HealingTracy J. Luedke
3. Of Markets and Medicine: The Changing Significance of Zimbabwean Muti in
the Age of Intensified GlobalizationDavid Simmons
4. Money, Modernity, and Morality: Traditional Healing and the Expansion of
the Holy Spirit in MozambiqueJames Pfeiffer
5. Transnational Images of Pentecostal Healing: Comparative Examples from
Malawi and BotswanaRijk van Dijk
6. From HIV/AIDS to Ukimwi: Narrating Local Accounts of a Cure Julian M.
Murchison
7. Geographies of Medicine: Interrogating the Boundary between
"Traditional" and "Modern" Medicine in Colonial TanganyikaStacey Langwick
8. Shifting Geographies of Suffering and Recovery: Traumatic Storytelling
after ApartheidChristopher J. Colvin
Afterword: Ethnographic Regions-Healing, Power, and HistorySteven Feierman
References Cited
Contributors
Index
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Healing Divides: Therapeutic Border Work in Southeast
AfricaHarry G. West and Tracy J. Luedke
1. Working the Borders to Beneficial Effect: The Not-So-Indigenous
Knowledge of Not-So-Traditional Healers in Northern MozambiqueHarry G. West
2. Presidents, Bishops, and Mothers: The Construction of Authority in
Mozambican HealingTracy J. Luedke
3. Of Markets and Medicine: The Changing Significance of Zimbabwean Muti in
the Age of Intensified GlobalizationDavid Simmons
4. Money, Modernity, and Morality: Traditional Healing and the Expansion of
the Holy Spirit in MozambiqueJames Pfeiffer
5. Transnational Images of Pentecostal Healing: Comparative Examples from
Malawi and BotswanaRijk van Dijk
6. From HIV/AIDS to Ukimwi: Narrating Local Accounts of a Cure Julian M.
Murchison
7. Geographies of Medicine: Interrogating the Boundary between
"Traditional" and "Modern" Medicine in Colonial TanganyikaStacey Langwick
8. Shifting Geographies of Suffering and Recovery: Traumatic Storytelling
after ApartheidChristopher J. Colvin
Afterword: Ethnographic Regions-Healing, Power, and HistorySteven Feierman
References Cited
Contributors
Index
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Healing Divides: Therapeutic Border Work in Southeast
AfricaHarry G. West and Tracy J. Luedke
1. Working the Borders to Beneficial Effect: The Not-So-Indigenous
Knowledge of Not-So-Traditional Healers in Northern MozambiqueHarry G. West
2. Presidents, Bishops, and Mothers: The Construction of Authority in
Mozambican HealingTracy J. Luedke
3. Of Markets and Medicine: The Changing Significance of Zimbabwean Muti in
the Age of Intensified GlobalizationDavid Simmons
4. Money, Modernity, and Morality: Traditional Healing and the Expansion of
the Holy Spirit in MozambiqueJames Pfeiffer
5. Transnational Images of Pentecostal Healing: Comparative Examples from
Malawi and BotswanaRijk van Dijk
6. From HIV/AIDS to Ukimwi: Narrating Local Accounts of a Cure Julian M.
Murchison
7. Geographies of Medicine: Interrogating the Boundary between
"Traditional" and "Modern" Medicine in Colonial TanganyikaStacey Langwick
8. Shifting Geographies of Suffering and Recovery: Traumatic Storytelling
after ApartheidChristopher J. Colvin
Afterword: Ethnographic Regions-Healing, Power, and HistorySteven Feierman
References Cited
Contributors
Index