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This book examines the evolution of post-colonial African Studies
through the eyes of Africanists from the Anabaptist (Mennonite and
Church of the Brethren) community. The book chronicles the lives of
twenty-two academics and practitioners whose work spans from the
immediate post-colonial period in the 1960s to the present day, a
period in which decolonization and development have dominated
scholarly and practitioner debate. Reflecting the values and
perspectives they shared with the Mennonite Central Committee and
other church-sponsored organizations, the authors consider their
own personal journeys and professional careers, the power of the
prevailing scholarly paradigms they encountered, and the realities
of post-colonial Africa. Coming initially from Anabaptist service
programs, the authors ultimately made wider contributions to
comparative religion, church leadership, literature, music,
political science, history, anthropology, economics and banking,
health and healing, public health, extension education, and
community development. The personal histories and reflections of
the authors provide an important glimpse into the intellectual and
cultural perspectives that shaped the work of Africanist scholars
and practitioners in the post-colonial period. The book reminds us
that the work of every Africanist is shaped by their own life
stories.
This book examines the evolution of post-colonial African Studies
through the eyes of Africanists from the Anabaptist (Mennonite and
Church of the Brethren) community. The book chronicles the lives of
twenty-two academics and practitioners whose work spans from the
immediate post-colonial period in the 1960s to the present day, a
period in which decolonization and development have dominated
scholarly and practitioner debate. Reflecting the values and
perspectives they shared with the Mennonite Central Committee and
other church-sponsored organizations, the authors consider their
own personal journeys and professional careers, the power of the
prevailing scholarly paradigms they encountered, and the realities
of post-colonial Africa. Coming initially from Anabaptist service
programs, the authors ultimately made wider contributions to
comparative religion, church leadership, literature, music,
political science, history, anthropology, economics and banking,
health and healing, public health, extension education, and
community development. The personal histories and reflections of
the authors provide an important glimpse into the intellectual and
cultural perspectives that shaped the work of Africanist scholars
and practitioners in the post-colonial period. The book reminds us
that the work of every Africanist is shaped by their own life
stories.
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African Medical Pluralism (Paperback)
William C Olsen, Carolyn Sargent; Contributions by Koen Stroeken, Claire Wendland, Arthur Kleinman, …
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R748
Discovery Miles 7 480
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In most places on the African continent, multiple health care
options exist and patients draw on a therapeutic continuum that
ranges from traditional medicine and religious healing to the
latest in biomedical technology. The ethnographically based essays
in this volume highlight African ways of perceiving sickness,
making sense of and treating suffering, and thinking about health
care to reveal the range and practice of everyday medicine in
Africa through historical, political, and economic contexts.
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African Medical Pluralism (Hardcover)
William C Olsen, Carolyn Sargent; Contributions by Koen Stroeken, Claire Wendland, Arthur Kleinman, …
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R2,070
R1,922
Discovery Miles 19 220
Save R148 (7%)
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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In most places on the African continent, multiple health care
options exist and patients draw on a therapeutic continuum that
ranges from traditional medicine and religious healing to the
latest in biomedical technology. The ethnographically based essays
in this volume highlight African ways of perceiving sickness,
making sense of and treating suffering, and thinking about health
care to reveal the range and practice of everyday medicine in
Africa through historical, political, and economic contexts.
Based on extensive field research in the Manianga region of the
Lower Congo, Health in a Fragile State is an anthropological
account of public health and health care after the collapse of the
Congolese state in the 1980s and 1990s. This work brings into focus
John M. Janzen's earlier books on African health and healing,
revealing the collaborative effort by local, national, and
international agencies to create viable alternative institutions to
those that represented the centralized state. This book documents
and analyzes the realignment of existing institutions and the
creation of new ones that shape health and healing. Janzen explores
the manner in which power and information, including science, are
legitimized in the preservation and improvement of health.
Institutional validity and knowledge empower citizens and health
practitioners to gain the upper hand over the region's principal
diseases, including malaria, tuberculosis, typhoid, and HIV/AIDS.
Based on extensive field research in the Manianga region of the
Lower Congo, Health in a Fragile State is an anthropological
account of public health and health care after the collapse of the
Congolese state in the 1980s and 1990s. This work brings into focus
John M. Janzen's earlier books on African health and healing,
revealing the collaborative effort by local, national, and
international agencies to create viable alternative institutions to
those that represented the centralized state. This book documents
and analyzes the realignment of existing institutions and the
creation of new ones that shape health and healing. Janzen explores
the manner in which power and information, including science, are
legitimized in the preservation and improvement of health.
Institutional validity and knowledge empower citizens and health
practitioners to gain the upper hand over the region's principal
diseases, including malaria, tuberculosis, typhoid, and HIV/AIDS.
In this book, Dr. John M. Janzen describes patterns of healing
among the BaKongo of Lower Zaire in Africa, who, like many peoples
elsewhere, utilize cosmopolitan medicine alongside traditional
healing practices. What criteria, he asks, determine the choice of
the alternative therapies? And what is their institutional
interrelationship?
In seeking answers, he analyzes case histories and cultural
contexts to explore what social transactions, decisionmaking,
illness and therapy classifications, and resource allocations are
used in the choice of therapy by the ill, their kinfolk, friends,
asociates, and specialized practitioners.
From the Preface:
This book presents an "on the ground" ethnographic account of how
medical clients of one region of Lower Zaire diagnose illness,
select therapies, and evaluate treatments, a process we call
"therapy management." The book is intended to clarify a phenomenon
of which central African clients have long been cognizant, namely,
that medical systems are used in combination. Our study is aimed
primarily at readers interested in the practical issues of medical
decision-making in an African country, the cultural content of
symptoms, and the dynamics of medical pluralism, that is, the
existence in a single society of differently designed and conceived
medical systems.
Recent political, social, and economic changes in Africa have
provoked radical shifts in the landscape of health and healthcare.
Medicine, Mobility, and Power in Global Africa captures the
multiple dynamics of a globalized world and its impact on medicine,
health, and the delivery of healthcare in Africa--and beyond.
Essays by an international group of contributors take on
intractable problems such as HIV/AIDS, malaria, and insufficient
access to healthcare, drugs, resources, hospitals, and
technologies. The movements of people and resources described here
expose the growing challenges of poverty and public health, but
they also show how new opportunities have been created for
transforming healthcare and promoting care and healing.
Recent political, social, and economic changes in Africa have
provoked radical shifts in the landscape of health and healthcare.
Medicine, Mobility, and Power in Global Africa captures the
multiple dynamics of a globalized world and its impact on medicine,
health, and the delivery of healthcare in Africa--and beyond.
Essays by an international group of contributors take on
intractable problems such as HIV/AIDS, malaria, and insufficient
access to healthcare, drugs, resources, hospitals, and
technologies. The movements of people and resources described here
expose the growing challenges of poverty and public health, but
they also show how new opportunities have been created for
transforming healthcare and promoting care and healing.
Until now our knowledge of African health and healing has been
extensive but fragmented. Here in eighteen essays is the first
comprehensive account of disease, health,and healing practices in
the African continent. The contributors all emphasize the social
conditions linked to ill health and the development of local
healing traditions, from Morocco to South Africa and from the
precolonial era to the present. Several chapters illustrate how the
most basic facts of everyday life encourage the spread of disease
and chape the possibilities of survival. Other discuss a variety of
healing practices: drums of affliction in Bantu-speaking societies,
Muslim humoral medicine, and biomedicine as practiced in hospitals
and dispensaries. The editors provide introductory overviews
explaining why and how health and disease are related to
historical, economic, and political phenomena.
"Ngoma," "" in Bantu, means drum, song, performance, and healing
cult or association. A widespread form of ritual healing in Central
and Southern Africa, "ngoma" is fully investigated here for the
first time and interpreted in a contemporary context. John Janzen's
daring study incorporates drumming and spirit possession into a
broader, institutional profile that emphasizes the varieties of
knowledge and social forms and also the common elements of "doing
"ngoma,""
Drawing on his recent field research in Kinshasa, Dar-es-Salaam,
Mbabane, and Capetown, Janzen reveals how "ngoma" transcends
national and social boundaries. Spoken and sung discourses about
affliction, extended counseling, reorientation of the self or
household, and the creation of networks that link the afflicted,
their kin, and their healers are all central to "ngoma"--and
familiar to Western self-help institutions as well. Students of
African healing and also those interested in the comparative and
historical study of medicine, religion, and music will find "Ngoma"
a valuable and thought-provoking book.
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