In southeast Africa, the power to heal is often associated with
crossing borders, whether literal or metaphorical. This
wide-ranging volume reveals that healers, whose power depends on
the ability to broker therapeutic resources, also contribute to the
construction of the borders they transgress. While addressing
diverse healing practices such as herbalism, razor-blade
vaccination, spirit possession, prophetic healing, missionary
health clinics, and traumatic storytelling, the nine lively and
provocative essays in Borders and Healers explore the creativity
and resilience of the region s healers and those they heal in a
world shaped by economic stagnation, declining state commitments to
health care, and the AIDS pandemic. 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."
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