Borders and Healers

Brokering Therapeutic Resources in Southeast Africa

AvTracy J. Luedke,Harry G. West

Häftad, Engelska, 2006

Del i serien Indiana University Press

267 kr

Beställningsvara. Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar. Fri frakt över 249 kr.

Beskrivning

In southeast Africa, the power to heal is often associated with crossing borders, whether literal or metaphorical. This wide-ranging volume reveals that healers, whose power depends on the ability to broker therapeutic resources, also contribute to the construction of the borders they transgress. While addressing diverse healing practices such as herbalism, razor-blade vaccination, spirit possession, prophetic healing, missionary health clinics, and traumatic storytelling, the nine lively and provocative essays in Borders and Healers explore the creativity and resilience of the region's healers and those they heal in a world shaped by economic stagnation, declining state commitments to health care, and the AIDS pandemic. 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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2006-02-02
Mått:156 x 235 x 24 mm
Vikt:386 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Indiana University Press
Antal sidor:240
Förlag:Indiana University Press
ISBN:9780253218056

Utforska kategorier

Mer om författaren

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.

Recensioner i media

". . . this is a diverse set of ethnographic accounts that provides some rich insights into the work which goes on around the boundaries of 'traditional healing'.Vol. 14.3 Sept. 2008"—Hannah Brown, University of Manchester". . . Luedke and West's book does indeed raise important issues; that in itself is what animates these concerns, and makes the book very interesting reading.51, 3 Dec. 2008"—Karen Flint, UNC-Charlotte"Well-written, thought-provoking, and grounded in fieldwork, this volume is written for anthropologists and will also be useful for public health professionals. . . . it will be invaluable for those teaching upper-level undergraduate or graduate courses on African health, and for anthropologists interested in therapeutic pluralism and theories of healing."—American Anthropologist". . . serves as an excellent regional anthology . . . but also valuably and originally extends this literature."—Journal of Southern African Studies

Innehållsförteckning

ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Healing Divides: Therapeutic Border Work in Southeast AfricaHarry G. West and Tracy J. Luedke1. Working the Borders to Beneficial Effect: The Not-So-Indigenous Knowledge of Not-So-Traditional Healers in Northern MozambiqueHarry G. West2. Presidents, Bishops, and Mothers: The Construction of Authority in Mozambican HealingTracy J. Luedke3. Of Markets and Medicine: The Changing Significance of Zimbabwean Muti in the Age of Intensified GlobalizationDavid Simmons4. Money, Modernity, and Morality: Traditional Healing and the Expansion of the Holy Spirit in MozambiqueJames Pfeiffer5. Transnational Images of Pentecostal Healing: Comparative Examples from Malawi and BotswanaRijk van Dijk6. From HIV/AIDS to Ukimwi: Narrating Local Accounts of a Cure Julian M. Murchison7. Geographies of Medicine: Interrogating the Boundary between "Traditional" and "Modern" Medicine in Colonial TanganyikaStacey Langwick8. Shifting Geographies of Suffering and Recovery: Traumatic Storytelling after ApartheidChristopher J. ColvinAfterword: Ethnographic Regions—Healing, Power, and HistorySteven FeiermanReferences CitedContributorsIndex