Medicine, Religion and Politics in Africa and the African Diaspora

Lecture Notes

Lec #	TOPICS
Part One: The Colonial Imaginary and Disciplinary Practices
1-4	Section One: Biopolitics, the Fetish, and the Colonial Imaginary (PDF 1) (PDF 2) (PDF 3) Lecture 1: Course Overview and Introduction
5-6	Section Two: Ecstasis and the Shock of Culture Contact (PDF 1) (PDF 2)
7-8	Section Three: Historical Ideologies of Sexuality, Race, and Madness (PDF 1) (PDF 2)
Part Two: Colonial Contexts of Medicine, Religion, and Politics
9-10	Section Four: Colonial Medicine in South Africa (PDF 1) (PDF 2)
11-13	Section Five: Race, Gender, Colonial Medicine, and the Construction of Disease (PDF 1) (PDF 2) (PDF 3)
Part Three: Anthropological (Re)Constructions of “African” Religion, Healing and Embodiment
14-16	Section Six: Medical Pluralism in the Former Zaire (PDF 1) (PDF 2) (PDF 3)
17-19	Section Seven: Culture, Morality, and the Senses in Ghana (PDF 1) (PDF 2) (PDF 3)
20	Section Eight: Sensory Ethnography in Niger (PDF)
Part Four: Cosmopolitan Medicine, Race, Gender, and Inequalities
21-22	Section Nine: Religion, Medicine, and the Medical Pluralism in Haiti (PDF 1) (PDF 2)
23-24	Section Ten: Contemporary Psychiatry: Race, Gender, and the Mind (PDF)
25-26	Section Eleven: Fictions of Race, Gender, and Illness (PDF)