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A Politics of Habitability: Plants, Healing, and Sovereignty in a Toxic World
Cultural Anthropology ( IF 1.9 ) Pub Date : 2018-08-21 , DOI: 10.14506/ca33.3.06
Stacey Ann Langwick

For Tanzanians, modern bodies bear complicated toxic loads not only because of the dumping of capitalism’s harmful by-products but also because of the social-material effects of efforts designed to address insecurity, poverty, and disease. Dawa lishe(nutritious medicine) is forged in this double bind. Producers of dawa lisheproblematize toxicity as the condition under which life is attenuated, diminished, depleted, exhausted, or drained away. Therapies attend not only to individual bodies but also to relations among people, plants, and the soil. The efficacy of herbal remedies and of gardens full of therapeutic foods and nutritious herbs rests in the cultivation of the forms of strength that make places, times, and bodies livable again (and again). This essay examines how Tanzanians are laboring over, and reflecting on, the toxic and its relationship to remedy and memory through dawa lishe. In the process, it argues, they are redefining healing through a politics of habitability.

中文翻译:

可居住性的政治:有毒世界中的植物,治疗和主权

对于坦桑尼亚人来说,现代尸体承受着复杂的毒物负荷,这不仅是因为倾销了资本主义的有害副产品,而且还因为旨在解决不安全,贫困和疾病的努力的社会物质影响。Dawa lishe(营养药物)是在这种双重约束下伪造的。达瓦力士生产者将毒性问题化为条件,在这种情况下,生命会被削弱,减少,消耗,耗尽或耗尽。治疗不仅涉及个体身体,而且涉及人,植物和土壤之间的关系。草药的功效以及充满治疗性食物和营养草药的花园的功效在于力量形式的培育,这种力量形式使地点,时间和身体再次(又一次)变得宜居。本文探讨了坦桑尼亚人如何努力工作并进行反思,毒药及其通过dawa lishe与补救和记忆的关系。它认为,在此过程中,他们正在通过适居性政治重新定义治疗方法。
更新日期:2018-08-21
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