History 103H/S: Healing & Illness in African History / Books

Professor Osseo-Asare
Fall 2006 (Th 2-4)

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All books are available for purchase at the campus book store. They are also on reserve at Moffitt Library. You may want to buy the Illiffe book online as it is currently on back order.
 

Timothy Burke
Lifebuoy Men, Lux Women: Commodification, Consumption and Cleanliness in Modern Zimbabwe (Duke, 1996)

Steven Feierman, John M. Janzen
The Social Basis of Health and Healing in Africa (California, 1992) 

Nancy Rose Hunt
A colonial lexicon: Birth Ritual, Medicalization, and Mobility in the Congo
(Duke, 1999)

John Illiffe
The African AIDS Epidemic: A History
(Ohio, 2006)

Maryinez Lyons,
The Colonial Disease: A Social History of Sleeping Sickness in Northern Zaire, 1900-1940

(Cambridge, 2002)

Malidoma Patrice Some
Of Water and the Spirit: Ritual, Magic, and Initiation in the Life of an African Shaman (Penguin Books, 1995)



Recommended


Ama Ata Aidoo
Changes: A Love Story
(The Feminist Press at CUNY, 1993)

Tsitsi Dangarembga, Nervous Conditions (Seal Press,  2005)

Frantz Fanon
The Wretched of the Earth
(Grove Press, 1965)

Howard W. French
A Continent for the Taking: The Tragedy and Hope of Africa  
(Vintage, 2005)