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Item specifics
- Condition
- EAN
- 9780253218056
- ISBN
- 0253218055
- Narrative Type
- Nonfiction
- Region
- Africa
- Subject Area
- Religion, Health & Fitness, Social Science, Medical, History
- Publication Name
- Borders and Healers : Brokering Therapeutic Resources in Southeast Africa
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press
- Item Length
- 9.3 in
- Subject
- Clinical Medicine, Aids & Hiv, Africa / South / General, Sociology / General, Healing, Ethnic & Tribal, Anthropology / Cultural & Social
- Publication Year
- 2006
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.6 in
- Item Weight
- 13.6 Oz
- Item Width
- 6.1 in
- Number of Pages
- 240 Pages
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Indiana University Press
ISBN-10
0253218055
ISBN-13
9780253218056
eBay Product ID (ePID)
46837332
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
240 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Borders and Healers : Brokering Therapeutic Resources in Southeast Africa
Subject
Clinical Medicine, Aids & Hiv, Africa / South / General, Sociology / General, Healing, Ethnic & Tribal, Anthropology / Cultural & Social
Publication Year
2006
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Religion, Health & Fitness, Social Science, Medical, History
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.6 in
Item Weight
13.6 Oz
Item Length
9.3 in
Item Width
6.1 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
2005-015437
Reviews
... 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., "... serves as an excellent regional anthology... but also valuably and originally extends this literature." -- Journal of Southern African Studies, 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., . . . 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, ... 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'.--Hannah Brown, University of Manchester"Jrnl Royal Anthropological Inst JRAI" (01/01/2008), ... serves as an excellent regional anthology... but also valuably and originally extends this literature., "... 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." -Karen Flint, UNC-Charlotte, African Studies Review, 51, 3 Dec. 2008, ... 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'., . . . 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, "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, ". . . 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, . . . serves as an excellent regional anthology . . . but also valuably and originally extends this literature., "... 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'." -Hannah Brown, University of Manchester, Jrnl Royal Anthropological Inst JRAI , Vol. 14.3 Sept. 2008, "... 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." -- Karen Flint, UNC-Charlotte, African Studies Review, 51, 3 Dec. 2008, "... 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'." -- Hannah Brown, University of Manchester, Jrnl Royal Anthropological Inst JRAI , Vol. 14.3 Sept. 2008, "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, 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.
Dewey Edition
22
Grade From
College Graduate Student
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
398/.353
Table Of Content
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
Synopsis
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., 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.
LC Classification Number
GT497.A356B67 2005
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