Borders and Healers

Brokering Therapeutic Resources in Southeast Africa

Tracy J. Luedke, Harry G. West (Herausgeber)

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240 Seiten

2006
Indiana University Press (Verlag)
978-0-253-21805-6 (ISBN)

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Reveals that healers, whose power depends on the ability to broker therapeutic resources, also contribute to the construction of the borders. This book explores the resilience of Southeast Africa's healers and those they heal in a world shaped by economic stagnation, declining state commitments to health care, and the AIDS pandemic.

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.

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.

Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Healing Divides: Therapeutic Border Work in Southeast Africa Harry 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 Mozambique Harry G. West
2. Presidents, Bishops, and Mothers: The Construction of Authority in Mozambican Healing Tracy J. Luedke
3. Of Markets and Medicine: The Changing Significance of Zimbabwean Muti in the Age of Intensified Globalization David Simmons
4. Money, Modernity, and Morality: Traditional Healing and the Expansion of the Holy Spirit in Mozambique James Pfeiffer
5. Transnational Images of Pentecostal Healing: Comparative Examples from Malawi and Botswana Rijk 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 Tanganyika Stacey Langwick
8. Shifting Geographies of Suffering and Recovery: Traumatic Storytelling after Apartheid Christopher J. Colvin
Afterword: Ethnographic Regions—Healing, Power, and History Steven Feierman
References Cited
Contributors
Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	2.2.2006
Zusatzinfo	10 b&w photos, 1 bibliog., 1 index
Verlagsort	Bloomington, IN
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Gewicht	390 g
Themenwelt	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Naturheilkunde
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
ISBN-10	0-253-21805-5 / 0253218055
ISBN-13	978-0-253-21805-6 / 9780253218056
Zustand	Neuware