Health in a Fragile State

Science, Sorcery, and Spirit in the Lower Congo

AvJohn M. Janzen

Häftad, Engelska, 2021

Del i serien Africa and the Diaspora: History, Politics, Culture

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Based on extensive field research in the Manianga region of the Lower Congo, Health in a Fragile State is an anthropological account of public health and health care after the collapse of the Congolese state in the 1980s and 1990s. This work brings into focus John M. Janzen's earlier books on African health and healing, revealing the collaborative effort by local, national, and international agencies to create viable alternative institutions to those that represented the centralized state. This book documents and analyzes the realignment of existing institutions and the creation of new ones that shape health and healing.Janzen explores the manner in which power and information, including science, are legitimized in the preservation and improvement of health. Institutional validity and knowledge empower citizens and health practitioners to gain the upper hand over the region's principal diseases, including malaria, tuberculosis, typhoid, and HIV/AIDS.

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Utgivningsdatum:2021-05-30
Mått:152 x 229 x 20 mm
Vikt:385 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Africa and the Diaspora: History, Politics, Culture
Antal sidor:288
Förlag:University of Wisconsin Press
ISBN:9780299325046

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John M. Janzen is a professor emeritus of anthropology at the University of Kansas. He is the author of The Quest for Therapy in Lower Zaire; Lemba, 1650–1930: A Drum of Affliction in Africa and the New World; Ngoma: Discourses of Healing in Central and Southern Africa; and many articles on health, healing, religion, and society in Central Africa and the Atlantic diaspora.

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List of Illustrations ixPreface and Acknowledgments xiiiList of Abbreviations xviiIntroduction 3Part I: A History of Population and Disease in the Lower Congo1 Population Decline and Rise 412 Postcolonial Population and Disease Trends 65Part II: The Social Reproduction of Health3 Health in Household, Family, and Clan 894 Public Health and Health Care Institutions, Reconfigured 1095 Rejoicing in Our Bodies: Popular Meanings of Health 145Part III: The Legitimation of Power and Knowledge6 Dumuna: Creating Authority from Below 1597 Science, Sorcery, and Spirit 1908 Legitimation and Disease Control 214Conclusion 229Notes 235Bibliography 243Index 251