Borders and healers : brokering therapeutic resources in southeast Africa / edited by Tracy J. Luedke and Harry G. West.

Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2006], ©2006.

vi, 223 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Introduction: Healing divides : therapeutic border work in southeast Africa / Harry G. West and Tracy J. Luedke -- Working the borders to beneficial effect : the not-so-indigenous knowledge of not-so-traditional healers in northern Mozambique / Harry G. West -- Presidents, bishops, and mothers : the construction of authority in Mozambican healing / Tracy J. Luedke -- Of markets and medicine : the changing significance of Zimbabwean muti in the age of intensified globalization / David Simmons -- Money, modernity, and morality : traditional healing and the expansion of the Holy Spirit in Mozambique / James Pfeiffer -- Transnational images of Pentecostal healing : comparative examples from Malawi and Botswana / Rijk van Dijk -- From HIV/AIDS to ukimwi : narrating local accounts of a cure / Julian M. Murchison -- Geographies of medicine : interrogating the boundary between "traditional" and "modern" medicine in colonial Tanganyika / Stacey Langwick -- Shifting geographies of suffering and recovery : traumatic storytelling after apartheid / Christopher J. Colvin -- Afterword: Ethnographic regions--healing, power, and history / Steven Feierman.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [195]-216) and index.