Being displaced from the control of some of the conditions of research by the people and events a scholar encounters in the “field” can generate transformative insights.1 To gain a deep familiarity with a community’s experiences, practices, and expressions calls for vulnerability,2 a social condition that arises from living with and listening to people and understanding the forms of story-performing that they deem valuable.3 During three years in northeastern Tanzania, I found that Zigua villagers who live in the coastal hinterland often employ healing performances to assuage traumas and disenchanting changes in their lives (many of them external in impetus). Healing draws from and treats all phases of community experience in a hermeneutic circle that enchains antiquity to the future.
...MoreBook Anna Winterbottom; Facil Tesfaye (2016) Histories of Medicine and Healing in the Indian Ocean World, Volume Two: The Modern Period.
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“Practising Hygiene and Fighting the Natives' Disease”: Public Health and Child Health in German East Africa and Tanganyka Territory, 1900--1960
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The Archaeological Potential for Reconstructing the History of Labor Relations in East Africa, c. 1500–1900
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(2006)
“What Do You Really Want in German East Africa, Herr Professor?” Counterinsurgency and the Science Effect in Colonial Tanzania
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(2019)
Turning the Tree Plantations of Slavery into Agroforests for Everyman: A Piece of Landscape History from Pemba Island, Zanzibar
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Making Medical Ideologies: Indentured Labor in Mauritius
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Graboyes, Melissa;
(2010)
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Koen Stroeken;
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Medicinal Rule: A Historical Anthropology of Kingship in East and Central Africa
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(2007)
Practising Colonial Medicine: The Colonial Medical Service in British East Africa
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(2019)
Trypanosomiasis, Tropical Medicine, and the Practices of Inter-Colonial Research at Lake Victoria, 1902-07
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Webel, Mari K.;
(2012)
Borderlands of Research: Medicine, Empire, and Sleeping Sickness in East Africa, 1902--1914
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Julie Laplante;
(2016)
Indian Ocean Worlds: Tracing South African “Indigenous Medicine”
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Sivasundaram, Sujit;
(2013)
Islanded: Britain, Sri Lanka, and the Bounds of an Indian Ocean Colony
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Anna Winterbottom;
Facil Tesfaye;
(2016)
Histories of Medicine and Healing in the Indian Ocean World, Volume Two: The Modern Period
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Montserrat Jiménez Sureda;
(2017)
Les dones i les professions sanitàries al llarg de la història
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Bradley J. Mollmann;
(2017)
The Medical Reformation: Healing, Heresy, and Inquisition in Sixteenth-Century Spain
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Jacqueline Holler;
(2021)
Mixing/Medicines: Healing Exchanges among Women in Early Colonial New Spain (1530–1650)
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Archambeau, Nicole;
(2011)
Healing Options during the Plague: Survivor Stories from a Fourteenth-Century Canonization Inquest
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Pomata, Gianna;
(2001)
Entre el Cielo y la Tierra: las Sanadoras de Bolonia en el Siglo XVI
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(2006)
Medical Charlatanism in Early Modern Italy
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