Description: 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.
Review Quotes:
". . . this is a diverse set of ethnographic accounts that provides some rich insights into the work which goes on around the boundaries of 'traditional healing'.Vol. 14.3 Sept. 2008"--Hannah Brown, University of Manchester
". . . Luedke and West's book does indeed raise important issues; that in itself is what animates these concerns, and makes the book very interesting reading.51, 3 Dec. 2008"--Karen Flint, UNC-Charlotte
"Well-written, thought-provoking, and grounded in fieldwork, this volume is written for anthropologists and will also be useful for public health professionals. . . . it will be invaluable for those teaching upper-level undergraduate or graduate courses on African health, and for anthropologists interested in therapeutic pluralism and theories of healing."--American Anthropologist
". . . serves as an excellent regional anthology . . . but also valuably and originally extends this literature."--Journal of Southern African Studies