TY - BOOK ID - 136294604 TI - Bodies, Politics, and African Healing : The Matter of Maladies in Tanzania PY - 2011 SN - 025300196X 9780253001962 9780253355270 0253355273 9780253222459 0253222451 9780253222565 9780253001405 PB - Bloomington : Indiana University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Anthropology, Cultural KW - Medicine, African Traditional KW - Medical care KW - Traditional medicine UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:136294604 AB - 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 p ER -