Medicine, Religion and Politics in Africa and the African Diaspora

Brodwin, Paul. Medicine and Morality in Haiti: The Contest for Healing Power . Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1996. ISBN: 9780521570299.

Butchart, Alexander. The Anatomy of Power: European Constructions of the African Body . New York, NY: St. Martin’s Press, 1998. ISBN: 9781856495400.

Butler, Octavia E. Wild Seed. New York, NY: Warner Books, 1999. ISBN: 9780446606721.

Fabian, Johannes. Out of Our Minds: Reason and Madness in the Exploration of Central Africa . Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2000. ISBN: 9780520221239.

Geurts, Kathryn Linn. Culture and the Senses: Bodily Ways of Knowing in an African Community . Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2003. ISBN: 9780520234567.

Gilman, Sander L. Difference and Pathology: Stereotypes of Sexuality, Race and Madness . Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1985. ISBN: 9780801493324.

Janzen, John M. The Quest for Therapy in Lower Zaire . Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1982. ISBN: 9780520046337.

Stoller, Paul. The Taste of Ethnographic Things: The Senses in Anthropology . Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1989. ISBN: 9780812212921.

Hunt, Nancy Rose. A Colonial Lexicon: Of Birth Ritual, Medicalization, and Mobility in the Congo . Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1999. ISBN: 9780822323662.

Peard, Julyan. Race, Place, and Medicine: The Idea of the Tropics in Nineteenth-Century Brazilian Medicine . Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2000. ISBN: 9780822323976.

Strange Beliefs: Sir Edward Evans-Pritchard. Film for the Humanities and Sciences, Inc. 1990, 52 minutes.

Directed by Zola Maseko. The Return of Sara Baartman. 2003, 55 minutes.

Foucault, Michel. “The Politics of Health in the Eighteenth Century.” In Power . Edited by James Faubion. Translated by Robert Hurley, et. al. London, UK: Penguin Books, 2002, pp. 90-105. ISBN: 9780140259575.

———. “The Birth of Biopolitics.” In Ethics: Subjectivity and Truth . Edited by Paul Rabinow. Translated by Robert Hurley, et. al. London, UK: Penguin Books, 2000, pp. 73-79. ISBN: 9780140259544.

Lock, Margaret, and Nancy Scheper Hughes. “A Critical-Interpretive Approach in Medical Anthropology: Rituals and Routines of Discipline and Dissent.” In Medical Anthropology: Contemporary Theory and Method . Revised ed. Westport, CT: Praeger, 1996, pp. 41-70. ISBN: 9780275952655.

Pietz, William. “The Problem of the Fetish.” Parts 1, 2, 3a, Res 9 (Spring 1985): 5-17, Res 13 (Spring 1987): 23-45, Res 16 (Autumn 1988): 105-123.

James, Erica. “Bio-Politics and the Struggle for Recognition.” Chapter 2 in The Violence of Misery: “Insecurity” in Haiti in the “Democratic” Era. Doctoral Thesis, 2003, 34 pages.

Fabian, Johannes. Out of Our Minds: Reason and Madness in the Exploration of Central Africa . Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2000, chapters 3-5, pp. 52-127. ISBN: 9780520221239.

———. Out of Our Minds: Reason and Madness in the Exploration of Central Africa . Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2000, chapters 8-9, pp. 180-239. ISBN: 9780520221239.

Gilman, Sander L. Difference and Pathology: Stereotypes of Sexuality, Race and Madness. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1985, introduction and chapter 3, pp. 15-35, 76-108. ISBN: 9780801493324.

Gilman, Sander L. Difference and Pathology: Stereotypes of Sexuality, Race and Madness . Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1985, pp. 109-149. ISBN: 9780801493324.

Littlewood, Roland, and Maurice Lipsedge. “Medicine and Racism.” Chapter 2 in Aliens and Alienists: Ethnic Minorities and Psychiatry. Harmondsworth, England: Penguin Books, 1982, pp. 26-60. ISBN: 9780140221282.

Butchart, Alexander. The Anatomy of Power: European Constructions of the African Body . New York, NY: St. Martin’s Press, 1998, chapters 1, 5, 7, pp. 1-12, 74-91, 111-127. ISBN: 9781856495400.

———. The Anatomy of Power: European Constructions of the African Body . New York, NY: St. Martin’s Press, 1998, chapters 8-9, pp. 128-172. ISBN: 9781856495400.

Peard, Julyan. Race, Place, and Medicine: The Idea of the Tropics in Nineteenth-Century Brazilian Medicine . Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2000, chapters 3-4, pp. 81-137. ISBN: 9780822323976.

Hunt, Nancy Rose. A Colonial Lexicon: Of Birth Ritual, Medicalization, and Mobility in the Congo . Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1999, chapter 5, pp. 196-236. ISBN: 9780822323662.

———. A Colonial Lexicon: Of Birth Ritual, Medicalization, and Mobility in the Congo . Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1999, chapter 6, pp. 237-280. ISBN: 9780822323662.

Skim prior to class: Evans-Pritchard, E. E. Witchcraft, Oracles and Magic Among the Azande. Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1976, 1972 (c1937), pp. 1-119. ISBN: 9780198740292.

Janzen, John M. The Quest for Therapy in Lower Zaire . Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1982, chapters 1-2, pp. 3-62. ISBN: 9780520046337.

Janzen, John M. The Quest for Therapy in Lower Zaire. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1982, chapters 3-5, and 8, pp. 67-89, 114-125. ISBN: 9780520046337.

———. The Quest for Therapy in Lower Zaire . Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1982, chapters 9-10, pp. 127-192. ISBN: 9780520046337.

Geurts, Kathryn Linn. Culture and the Senses: Bodily Ways of Knowing in an African Community . Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2003, chapters 1-3, pp. 3-69. ISBN: 9780520234567.

———. Culture and the Senses: Bodily Ways of Knowing in an African Community . Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2003, chapters 4-7, pp. 73- 165. ISBN: 9780520234567.

———. Culture and the Senses: Bodily Ways of Knowing in an African Community . Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2003, chapters 8-9, pp. 169-223. ISBN: 9780520234567.

Stoller, Paul. The Taste of Ethnographic Things: The Senses in Anthropology . Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1989. ISBN: 9780812212921. (Entire book.)

Brodwin, Paul. Medicine and Morality in Haiti: The Contest for Healing Power . Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1996, introduction and chapters 1-2, pp. 1-55. ISBN: 9780521570299.

Brodwin, Paul. Medicine and Morality in Haiti: The Contest for Healing Power . Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1996, chapters 4-6, pp. 76-151. ISBN: 9780521570299.

Littlewood, Roland, and Maurice Lipsedge. Aliens and Alienists: Ethnic Minorities and Psychiatry . Harmondsworth, England: Penguin Books, 1982, chapter 3, pp. 61-82. ISBN: 9780140221282.

Swartz, Leslie. Culture and Mental Health: A Southern African View . Cape Town, South Africa: Oxford University Press, 1999, chapters 8-10, pp. 167-240. ISBN: 9780195709810.

Butler, Octavia E. Wild Seed . New York, NY: Warner Books, 1999. ISBN: 9780446606721. Book 1.

———. Wild Seed . New York, NY: Warner Books, 1999. ISBN: 9780446606721. Book 2.