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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.
Africa's Health Challenges
This volume addresses the ideational and policy-oriented challenges of Africa’s health governance due to voluntary and involuntary cross-border migration of people and diseases in a growing 'mobile Africa'. The collected set of specialized contributions in this volume examines how national and regional policy innovation can address the competing conception of sovereignty in dealing with Africa’s emerging healthcare problems in a fast-paced, interconnect world.
Holy Water and Evil Spirits
In Tanzania, the Marian Faith Healing Ministry offers Catholic healing rituals under the patronage of the Virgin Mary. Exorcism and a special water service are central to the healing process. People bring physical, spiritual, and social afflictions before the group's leader, Felicien Nkwera. Combining the perspectives of the study of religions and medical anthropology, this book analyzes Nkwera's pastoral texts and the personal healing narratives of the members. Thus, a complex image of the healing process is created and framed within its Tanzanian interreligious context and its global conservative Catholic context. (Series: Beitrage zur Afrikaforschung - Vol. 47)
At Ansha's
Ansha and the Spirits -- Rural and Urban -- Health and Healing -- Wives and Husband -- Demons and Spirits -- Insiders and Outsiders -- Mountains -- Coast -- Rivers and Bridges -- Outside the mosque -- Makhuwa and Maka -- Books and Roots -- Muslims of the Spirits, Muslims of the Mosque -- Healers and the Governo -- Nurses and Healers -- Knowing and Not-Knowing -- Patients -- Good and Evil -- Close and Open -- The Dead and the Living -- Juniors and Seniors -- Tradition and Modernity -- Spirits and Women -- Returns -- Life and Death -- Epilogue.
Issues and Perspectives on Health Care in Contemporary Sub-Saharan Africa
Contributors from both Africa and the United States include medical geographers, medical doctors, Africanists, demographers, anthropologists, sociologists, and economists.
Globale Epidemien - Lokale Antworten
Malaria ist eine der weltweit häufigsten Erkrankungen - jährlich sterben über zwei Millionen Menschen an dieser Epidemie. Vor dem Hintergrund globaler Machtkonstellationen untersucht Caroline Meier zu Biesen die Einführung der chinesischen Heilpflanze Artemisia annua in Tansania, die als vielversprechende Alternative zu herkömmlichen Malariatherapien angesehen wird. Im Fokus der Untersuchung steht die Wandlung von der Heilpflanze in ein Arzneimittel, dessen Produktion und Distribution den Gesetzen des Weltmarkts unterliegt. Dabei zeigt sich, wie globale Marktmechanismen und Machthegemonien das Potenzial von Artemisia annua für die Betroffenen schwächen und bestehende Abhängigkeiten vom staatlichen Gesundheitswesen vertiefen können.
