Chapter ID: CBB923454265

Zigua Medicine, between Mountains and Ocean: People, Performances, and Objects in Healing Motion (2016)

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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.

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Authors & Contributors
Webel, Mari K.
Julie Laplante
Conte, Christopher A.
Yoshina Hurgobin
Mollmann, Bradley J.
Jiménez Sureda, Montserrat
Concepts
Medicine
Healers
Colonialism
Germany, colonies
Public health
Knowledge circulation
Time Periods
20th century, early
18th century
17th century
16th century
20th century
19th century
Places
East Africa
Indian Ocean
Tanzania (Tanganyika, Zanzibar)
Italy
Africa
Cape of Good Hope (South Africa)
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