Medicines That Feed Us examines the relationship between toxicity and remedy in the face of the intertwined health and environmental crises that are shaping life in the twenty-first century. Through ethnographic work with organizations that use plant-based healing and sustainable farming practices in Tanzania, Stacey A. Langwick asks what it means to heal in a toxic world. Expanding on the Kiswahili phrase dawa lishe, or medicines that feed us, Langwick describes the potency of plant medicines in therapeutic projects that address bodies and environments together. These efforts challenge biomedicine's intense focus on the internal dynamics of biological bodies and its externalization of the modern agricultural, industrial, and land management practices that impact it. Dawa lishe is not a call to return to the traditional, but an invitation to join contemporary experiments in how we know, use, and govern therapeutic plants. Medicines That Feed Us offers alternative ways of living and dying, growing and decaying, composing and decomposing which acknowledge the interdependence of bodily and ecological health.
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Medicines That Feed Us: Plants, Healing, and Sovereignty in a Toxic World
Stacey A. Langwick is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Cornell University, author of Bodies, Politics, and African Healing: The Matter of Maladies in Tanzania, and co-editor of Medicine, Mobility, and Power in Global Africa: Transnational Health and Healing.
"With this beautiful, nuanced ethnography, Stacey Langwick has produced a landmark study of African healing. Medicines that Feed Us takes readers through a set of experiments with plants by which Tanzanians theorize healing through practice in a toxic world. In refusing the false divides between body and environment or medicine and food, this brilliant new book places the deep insights of African theory at the center of how to reckon with toxicity."?Julie Livingston, author of, Self-Devouring Growth: A Planetary Parable as Told from Southern Africa
"Grounded in decades of scholarly and personal engagement, Langwick's ethnography explores the entanglements between human and nonhuman, living and non-living, and body and ecology. It merges medical and environmental concerns, intertwining health and agricultural questions in a thoroughly innovative and literal way. Medicines That Feed Us is an outstanding work that has the potential to considerably advance discussions within cultural and social anthropology, and collaborations with other disciplines and activism."?Paul Wenzel Geissler, coauthor of, Traces of the Future: An Archaeology of Medical Science in Africa
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