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Borders and healers : brokering therapeutic resources in southeast Africa
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Borders and healers : brokering therapeutic resources in southeast Africa

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Introduction: Healing divides : therapeutic border work in southeast Africa / Harry G. West and Tracy J. Luedke
Working the borders to beneficial effect : the not-so-indigenous knowledge of not-so-traditional healers in northern Mozambique / Harry G. West
Presidents, bishops, and mothers : the construction of authority in Mozambican healing / Tracy J. Luedke
Of markets and medicine : the changing significance of Zimbabwean muti in the age of intensified globalization / David Simmons
Money, modernity, and morality : traditional healing and the expansion of the Holy Spirit in Mozambique / James Pfeiffer
Transnational images of Pentecostal healing : comparative examples from Malawi and Botswana / Rijk van Dijk
From HIV/AIDS to ukimwi : narrating local accounts of a cure / Julian M. Murchison
Geographies of medicine : interrogating the boundary between "traditional" and "modern" medicine in colonial Tanganyika / Stacey Langwick
Shifting geographies of suffering and recovery : traumatic storytelling after apartheid / Christopher J. Colvin
Afterword: Ethnographic regions
healing, power, and history / Steven Feierman.

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Borders and healers : brokering therapeutic resources in southeast Africa. ISBN 0253218055. Published by Indiana University Press in 2006. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.

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