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Medicine, Religion and Politics in Africa and the African Diaspora

Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyUnited States21A.460J
Free, no sign-up neededSpring 2005English
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This course provides an exploration of colonial and postcolonial clashes between theories of healing and embodiment in the African world and those of western bio-medicine. It examines how Afro-Atlantic religious traditions have challenged western conceptions of illness, healing, and the body and have also offered alternative notions of morality, rationality, kinship, gender, and sexuality.

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