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Borders and Healers: Brokering Therapeutic Resources in Southeast Africa

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In southeast Africa, the power to heal is frequently associated with crossing borders, whether literal or metaphorical. This wide-ranging volume reveals that healers, whose power depends upon the ability to broker therapeutic resources, also give a contribution to the construction of the borders they transgress. At the same time as addressing diverse healing practices such as herbalism, razor-blade vaccination, spirit possession, prophetic healing, missionary health clinics, and traumatic storytelling, the nine vigorous 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 necessary book contributes to understandings of the ways by which healing practices in southeast Africa mediate divides between the rich and the impoverished, the standard and the brand new, the local and the global.

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