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Traces of the future : an archaeology of medical science in Africa / edited by Paul Wenzel Geissler, Guillaume Lachenal, John Manton and Noémi Tousignant ; with special contributions by Evgenia Arbugaeva and Mariele Neudecker.
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English
Published/Created
Bristol : Intellect ; Chicago, IL : Intellect, The University of Chicago Press, 2016.
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255 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps, portraits ; 27 cm
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Firestone Library - Stacks
R651 .T73 2016
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Subject(s)
Medicine
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Africa, Sub-Saharan
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History
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20th century
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Traditional medicine
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Africa, Sub-Saharan
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History
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Medicine
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Research
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Africa, Sub-Saharan
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History
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20th century
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Manners and customs
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Africa, Sub-Saharan
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Editor
Geissler, Wenzel
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Lachenal, Guillaume, 1978-
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Manton, John, 1971-
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Tousignant, Noémi
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Contributor
Arbugaeva, Evgenia
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Neudecker, Mariele, 1965-
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Photographer
Arbugaeva, Evgenia
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Library of Congress genre(s)
Personal narratives
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Summary note
This book presents a close look at the vestiges of twentieth-century medical work at five key sites in Africa: Senegal, Nigeria, Cameroon, Kenya, and Tanzania. The authors aim to understand the afterlife of scientific institutions and practices and the "aftertime" of scientific modernity and its attendant visions of progress and transformation. Straightforward scholarly work is juxtaposed here with altogether more experimental approaches to fieldwork and analysis, including interview fragments; brief, reflective essays; and a rich photographic archive. The result is an unprecedented view of the lingering traces of medical science from Africa's past.
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Includes index.
Contents
Being with pasts: a preface / Nancy Rose Hunt
Introduction: Brief instructions for archaeologists of African futures / Guillaume Lachenal
Archives / John Manton
Half-built ruins / Noemi Tousignant
Echo [Amani vanitas] / Mariele Neudecker
Uzuakoli / John Manton
Chronology
Musical memory and medical forgetting in Uzuakoli
The failure of paper
Soundings
Ayos / Joseph Owona Ntsama
Ayos: a century of biopolitics and commemoration / Joseph Owona Ntsama
Main characters
Bricks / Joseph Owona Ntsama
Present absences / Guillaume Lachenal
Monument men / Joseph Owona Ntsama
Joseph Owona (1916
1971) / Joseph Owona Ntsama
When will independence end? / Guillaume Lachenal
Death and dust in Ayos / Joseph Owona Ntsama
Amani / Rene Gerrets
Amani: dream capsule suspended on a mountain / Peter Mangesho
Aloys, keeper of memories / P. Wenzel Geissler
The bottle / Peter Mangesho
The head driver / Ann H. Kelly
Remembering a Soviet method / Ann H. Kelly
Tabula rasa / P. Wenzel Geissler
Kidevu's return: reenacting mid 20th-century science / Ann H. Kelly
Performing time: what boundaries to reenactment? / Peter Mangesho
Treasure diggers / Rene Garrets
The botanical garden / Peter Mangesho
Niakhar / Noemi Tousignant
Niakhar: a field site with a history / Anne-Marie Moulin
Custodians of the field / Ashley Ouvrier
Traces of a shelf / Aissatou Mbodj-Pouye
When will Ngor Diouf come back? / Noemi Tousignant
Archival fantasies / Alice Desclaux
Garenne's return / Ashley Ouvrier
Kisumu / Ruth J. Prince
Kisumu: global health amnesia / Ruth J. Prince
Waiting / Philister A. Madiega
Blueprint and building / P. Wenzel Geissler
"Russia" / Ruth J. Prince
Amani mania / Evgenia Arbugaeva
Epilogue: reflections on projects "brought" / Iruka Okeke.
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ISBN
9781783207251 (hardback)
1783207256 (hardback)
OCLC
965129992
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