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Morality, Hope And Grief - Anthropologies Of Aids In Africa

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 The HIV/AIDS epidemic in sub-Saharan Africa has been addressed and perceived predominantly through the broad perspectives of social and economic theories as well as public health and development discourses. This volume however, focuses on the micro-politics of illness, treatment, and death...
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Moral Power - The Magic Of Witchcraft

by Koen Stroeken

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 <p> Neither power nor morality but both. Moral power is what Sukuma farmers in Tanzania in times of crisis attribute to an unknown figure they call their witch. A universal process is involved, as much bodily as social, which obstructs the patients recovery. Healers turn the table on the witch through rituals showing that the community and the ancestral spirits side with the victim. In contrast to biomedicine, their magic and divination introduce moral values that assess the state of the system and that remove the obstacles to what is taken as key: self-healing. The implied sensory shifts and therapeutic effectiveness have largely eluded the literature on witchcraft. This book shows how to comprehend culture other than through the prism of identity politics. It offers a framework to comprehend the rise of witch killings and human sacrifice, just as ritual initiation disappears.</p>
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Medicine Between Science And Religion - Explorations On Tibetan Grounds

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 There is a growing interest in studies that document the relationship between science and medicine-as ideas, practices, technologies and outcomes-across cultural, national, geographic terrain. Tibetan medicine is not only known as a scholarly medical tradition among other Asian medical systems...
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Plants, Health And Healing - On The Interface Of Ethnobotany And Medical Anthropology

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 Plants have cultural histories, and their culturally known applications change through time and across contexts. The impact of individual plant species on human cultures has been profound, whether it is the coca and quinine from South America or tea and coffee from the Old World. This pattern is seen in all types of uses that humans make of plants.
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The Land Is Dying - Contingency, Creativity And Conflict In Western Kenya

by Paul Wenzel Geissler e Ruth Jane Prince

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 Based on several years of ethnographic fieldwork, the book explores life in and around a Luo-speaking village in western Kenya during a time of death: the epidemic of HIV/AIDS, which by the turn of the century had affected every aspect of sociality and pervaded villagers' debates about the past, the future and the ethics of everyday life.
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Fortune And The Cursed - The Sliding Scale Of Time In Mongolian Divination

by Katherine Swancutt

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 This ethnographic study is an entrance into the world of Buryat Mongol divination, where a group of cursed shamans undertake the "race against time" to produce innovative remedies that will improve their fallen fortunes at an unconventional pace.
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Conjuring Hope - Healing And Magic In Contemporary Russia

by Galina Lindquist

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 Notions of magic and healing have been changing over past years and are now understood as reflecting local ideas of power and agency, as well as structures of self, subjectivity and affect. This study focuses on contemporary urban Russia and, through exploring social conditions, conveys the experience of living that makes magic logical.
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Capturing Quicksilver - The Position, Power, And Plasticity Of Chinese Medicine In Singapore

by Arielle A. Smith

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 Capturing Quicksilver considers the use, promotion, and legislation of Chinese medicine in Singapore in relation to government policies favoring international investment, urban redevelopment, healthcare regulation, "multiracial" nationalism, and the management of history and heritage.
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Body In Balance - Humoral Medicines In Practice

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 Focusing on practice more than theory, this collection offers new perspectives for studying the so-called humoral medical traditions, as they have flourished around the globe during the last 2,000 years. Exploring notions of balance in medical cultures across Eurasia, Africa and the Americas, from antiquity to the present, the volume revisits harmony and holism as main characteristics of those traditions. It foregrounds a dynamic notion of balance and asks how balance is defined or conceptualized, by whom, for whom and in what circumstances. Balance need not connoteegalitarianism or equilibrium. Rather, it alludes to morals of self care exercised in place of excessiveness and indulgences after long periods of a life in dearth. As the moral becomes visceral, the question arises: what constitutes the visceral in a body that is in constant flux and flow? How far, and in what ways, are there fundamental properties or constituents in those bodies?
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Chinese Medicine In East Africa - An Intimacy With Strangers

by Elisabeth Hsu

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 <p>Based on fieldwork conducted between 2001-2008 in urban East Africa, this book explores who the patients, practitioners and paraprofessionals doing Chinese medicine were in this early period of renewed China-Africa relations. Rather than taking recourse to the ‘placebo effect’, the author explains through the spatialities and materialities of the medical procedures provided why - apart from purchasing the Chinese antimalarial called Artemisinin - locals would try out their ‘alternatively modern’ formulas for treating a wide range of post-colonial disorders and seek their sexual enhancement medicines.</p>
Fragile Futures - Ambiguities Of Care In Burkina Faso

by Helle Samuelsen

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 Caring for small children and the family in Burkina Faso is hard work. Although the health infrastructure in Burkina Faso is weak and many citizens feel neglected by the state, Fragile Futures shows that the state continues to play an important role in peopleâ€™s engagements and hopes for a better future.
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Chinese Medicine In East Africa - An Intimacy With Strangers

by Elisabeth Hsu

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 Based on fieldwork conducted between 2001-2008 in urban East Africa, this book explores who the patients, practitioners and paraprofessionals doing Chinese medicine were in this early period of renewed China-Africa relations.
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Configuring Contagion - Ethnographies Of Biosocial Epidemics

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 Expanding our understanding of contagion further than typical notions of infection and pandemics, this book widens the field to include biosocial epidemics. The chapters propose varied and detailed answers to questions about the epidemic and contagious potential of specific infections and non-infectious conditions.
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Fragile Futures - Ambiguities Of Care In Burkina Faso

by Helle Samuelsen

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 Caring for small children and the family in Burkina Faso is hard work. Although the health infrastructure in Burkina Faso is weak and many citizens feel neglected by the state, Fragile Futures shows that the state continues to play an important role in peopleâ€™s engagements and hopes for a better future.
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Fierce Medicines, Fragile Socialities - Grounding Global Hiv Treatment In Tanzania

by Dominik Mattes

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 Looking at Tanga, a city on the Tanzanian Swahili coast, Dominik Mattes examines the implementation of antiretroviral HIV-treatment (ART) in the area, exploring the manifold infrastructural and social fragilities of treatment provision in public HIV clinics as well as patientsâ€™ multi-layered struggles of coming to terms with ART in their everyday lives.
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Breathing Hearts - Sufism, Healing, And Anti-Muslim Racism In Germany

by Nasima Selim

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 Sufism is known as the mystical dimension of Islam. Nasima Selim explores this definition to find out what it means to â€˜breathe wellâ€™ along the Sufi path in the context of anti-Muslim racism. Breathing Hearts is the first book-length ethnographic account of Sufi practices and politics in Berlin.
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Fragile Futures - Ambiguities Of Care In Burkina Faso

by Helle Samuelsen

~~26,43€~~ 23,79€ 10% OFF

 Caring for small children and the family in Burkina Faso is hard work. Although the health infrastructure in Burkina Faso is weak and many citizens feel neglected by the state, Fragile Futures shows that the state continues to play an important role in peopleâ€™s engagements and hopes for a better future.
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How Materials Matter - Design, Innovation And Materiality In The Pacific

by Graeme Were

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 Explores how design and innovation shape peopleâ€™s lives in the Pacific. Focusing on plant materials from the region, it reveals ways in which a variety of people â€" from craftswomen and scientists to architects and politicians â€" work with materials to transform worlds.
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Fierce Medicines, Fragile Socialities - Grounding Global Hiv Treatment In Tanzania

by Dominik Mattes

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 Looking at Tanga, a city on the Tanzanian Swahili coast, Dominik Mattes examines the implementation of antiretroviral HIV-treatment (ART) in the area, exploring the manifold infrastructural and social fragilities of treatment provision in public HIV clinics as well as patientsâ€™ multi-layered struggles of coming to terms with ART in their everyday lives.
Breathing Hearts - Sufism, Healing, And Anti-Muslim Racism In Germany

by Nasima Selim

~~37,03€~~ 33,33€ 10% OFF

 Sufism is known as the mystical dimension of Islam. Nasima Selim explores this definition to find out what it means to â€˜breathe wellâ€™ along the Sufi path in the context of anti-Muslim racism. Breathing Hearts is the first book-length ethnographic account of Sufi practices and politics in Berlin.
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Chinese Medicine In East Africa - An Intimacy With Strangers

by Elisabeth Hsu

30,41€ + 10% CARD

 Based on fieldwork conducted between 2001-2008 in urban East Africa, this book explores who the patients, practitioners and paraprofessionals doing Chinese medicine were in this early period of renewed China-Africa relations.
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Chinese Medicine In East Africa - An Intimacy With Strangers

by Elisabeth Hsu

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 Based on fieldwork conducted between 2001-2008 in urban East Africa, this book explores who the patients, practitioners and paraprofessionals doing Chinese medicine were in this early period of renewed China-Africa relations.
ENGLISH

Configuring Contagion - Ethnographies Of Biosocial Epidemics

133,84€ + 10% CARD

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 Expanding our understanding of contagion further than typical notions of infection and pandemics, this book widens the field to include biosocial epidemics. The chapters propose varied and detailed answers to questions about the epidemic and contagious potential of specific infections and non-infectious conditions.
ENGLISH

Configuring Contagion - Ethnographies Of Biosocial Epidemics

26,43€ + 10% CARD

 Expanding our understanding of contagion further than typical notions of infection and pandemics, this book widens the field to include biosocial epidemics. The chapters propose varied and detailed answers to questions about the epidemic and contagious potential of specific infections and non-infectious conditions.
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