Borders and healers
Subtitle: brokering therapeutic resources in southeast Africa
By: edited by Tracy J. Luedke and Harry G. West.
Contributors: Luedke, Tracy J.; West, Harry G.
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Bloomington
Language: eng
Number of pages: 223
Subjects: Traditional medicine -- Africa, Southern; Healing -- Africa, Southern; Therapeutics -- Africa, Southern; Body, Human -- Social aspects -- Africa, Southern; Africa, Southern -- Social life and customs
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Healing divides : therapeutic border work in southeast Africa / Harry G. West and Tracy J. Luedke; title: Working the borders to beneficial effect : the not-so-indigenous knowledge of not-so-traditional healers in northern Mozambique / Harry G. West; title: Presidents, bishops, and mothers : the construction of authority in Mozambican healing / Tracy J. Luedke; title: Of markets and medicine : the changing significance of Zimbabwean muti in the age of intensified globalization / David Simmons; title: Money, modernity, and morality : traditional healing and the expansion of the Holy Spirit in Mozambique / James Pfeiffer; title: Transnational images of Pentecostal healing : comparative examples from Malawi and Botswana / Rijk van Dijk; title: From HIV/AIDS to ukimwi : narrating local accounts of a cure / Julian M. Murchison; title: Geographies of medicine : interrogating the boundary between "traditional" and "modern" medicine in colonial Tanganyika / Stacey Langwick; title: Shifting geographies of suffering and recovery : traumatic storytelling after apartheid / Christopher J. Colvin; title: Afterword: Ethnographic regions; title: healing, power, and history / Steven Feierman.