Borders And Healers
Subtitle: Brokering Therapeutic Resources in Southeast Africa
Contributors: Tracy J. Luedke (Editor); Harry G. West (Editor)
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: December 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 223
ISBN-13: 9780253346636
Subjects: African studies; Anthropology; Complementary Medicine; Social Science; Archaeology / Anthropology; Sociology; Southern Africa; Anthropology - Cultural; Folklore & Mythology - Folklore; Africa, Southern; Healing; Therapeutics; Traditional medicine
First sentence: When I first decided, after several years conducting anthropological research in Mozambique, to focus my attention during a 1999 research stint explicitly on healers, I paid a visit to the Ministry of Health in Maputo before heading north to my field site on the Mueda plateau in Cabo Delgado Province.