Reading Questions

Stacey Langwick

Terms, People & Places

Therapeutic ecology

(in)commensurabilities

Bodily assemblages

Postcolonial

Epistemological

Ontological

Kombe

Mashitini

Mateso

Discussion Questions

1. What are Langwick’s research methods?

2. For Langwick, what does it mean to enact bodies?

3. What forms of traditional medicine exist in Tanzania?

4. What is the difference between healing as a professional and healing as a calling?

5. What are some examples of the friction between traditional and bio-medicine? How do the two systems sometimes offer different explanations for the same underlying health condition?

6. How have political and economic forces shaped traditional medicine in Tanzania?

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