Bodies, Politics and African Healing with Stacey Langwick

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Bodies, Politics and African Healing with Stacey Langwick
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In this episode, we’re joined by Stacy Langwick, a cultural and medical anthropologist at Cornell University who focuses on healing and medicine in East Africa. We talk to Stacey about her 2011 book, Bodies, Politics, and African Healing: The Matter of Maladies in Tanzania, as well as more recent work that takes up issues of toxicity, therapeutics, dispossession, and plants, and healing.

For more about Stacey visit her page at: https://anthropology.cornell.edu/stacey-langwick

Her book is available at: https://iupress.org/9780253222459/bodies-politics-and-african-healing/

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