a International and Global Studies Department , Mercer University , Macon , Georgia , USA.
Med Anthropol. 2018 Nov-Dec;37(8):722-736. doi: 10.1080/01459740.2018.1476974. Epub 2018 Jul 20.
At the center of conflict between the state and traditional healers (waganga wa kienyeji) over the meanings of traditional healing in contemporary Tanzania are debates about what constitutes knowledge, the production of knowledge, and the legitimacy of "traditional" ways of knowing. Drawing on media analysis and ethnographic fieldwork carried out between 2004 and 2016, I describe how healers locate their knowledge in experience, ancestors, and spirits, while the state imagines a future where traditional healers are formally educated and practice in white uniforms. While embedded in a larger colonial and postcolonial history, this conflict arose in response to the attribution of violence against persons with albinism to traditional healers.
在坦桑尼亚，国家与传统治疗师（waganga wa kienyeji）就传统医学的含义产生冲突的核心在于关于知识的构成、知识的生产以及“传统”认知方式的合法性等问题的争论。本文通过对 2004 年至 2016 年间进行的媒体分析和民族志实地调查，描述了治疗师如何将其知识定位在经验、祖先和神灵之中，而国家则设想了一个传统治疗师接受正规教育并穿着白色制服行医的未来。虽然这一冲突是在更大的殖民和后殖民历史背景下产生的，但它是对将白化病患者遭受暴力归咎于传统治疗师这一行为的回应。
