Conjuring the modern in Africa: Durability and rupture in histories of public healing between the great lakes of east Africa

David L. Schoenbrun*

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Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)1403-1439
Number of pages37
JournalAmerican Historical Review
Volume111
Issue number5
DOIs
StatePublished - Dec 2006

Funding

Research and writing were supported by the Social Science Research Council, the American Council of Learned Societies, and Northwestern University. Thanks as well to faculty and graduate students in workshops and panels at Northwestern University, Yale University, UCLA, the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and the University of Chicago for supportive, pointed criticisms. Jean Comaroff, John L. Comaroff, Kate de Luna, Steven Feierman, Edda Fields-Black, Jonathon Glassman, Christopher Hay-den, Nancy Rose Hunt, Neil Kodesh, Paul Landau, Julie Livingston, Maureen Malowany, Godwin Mu-runga, Alphonse Otieno, Dylan Penningroth, Timothy B. Powell, Rhiannon Stephens, Lynn Thomas, and the AHR editors and six anonymous readers offered valuable criticisms of earlier drafts.

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • History
  • Archaeology
  • Museology

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