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Where is Naledi?
Part of a series of readers for young African students and consisting of stories from all over Africa, the Level 1 starters are picture books for children who have just begun to read for themselves.
Claudine Ari He?
Part of a series of readers for young African students and consisting of stories from all over Africa, these are picture books for children who have just begun to read for themselves. In this story, Naledi's struggles in maths class cause her to try to miss school. She is unhappy until a kindly teacher intervenes...
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.
Evidence, Ethos and Experiment
Medical research has been central to biomedicine in Africa for over a century, and Africa, along with other tropical areas, has been crucial to the development of medical science. At present, study populations in Africa participate in an increasing number of medical research projects and clinical trials, run by both public institutions and private companies. Global debates about the politics and ethics of this research are growing and local concerns are prompting calls for social studies of the “trial communities” produced by this scientific work. Drawing on rich, ethnographic and historiographic material, this volume represents the emergent field of anthropological inquiry that links Africanist ethnography to recent concerns with science, the state, and the culture of late capitalism in Africa.
Where Is Claudine?
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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)
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.
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.
