Body and Affect in the Intercultural Encounter

Drawing on four decades of research and experience in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Devisch contributes to the field of Africanist anthropology by discussing his hosts' perspectives on and commitment to classical Bantu-African healing cults, parallel consultation of physicians and healers, sorcery's threat, and its homeopathic ritual reversion. He takes into account the widespread proletarian outbursts of violence in 1991 and 1993 and the disillusioning modernization, but emphasizes the Yakaphone people's zest for life, tenacity, and sociality along with their investigative and epistemological traditions, especially their quest for health. Distributed in North America by the African Books Collective. Annotation ©2017 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)