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.
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.
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.
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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
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
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