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
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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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    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.
    ISBN
    • 9781783207251 (hardback)
    • 1783207256 (hardback)
    OCLC
    965129992
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