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Chapter One. War Of Words: The Narrative Efficacy Of Medicine In The Maji Maji War

Monson, Jamie·2010·Maji Maji
DOI 10.1163/ej.9789004183421.i-325.11
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In this chapter, the author takes the analysis of the role of maji during the war and its aftermath still further. His approach seeks to go beyond an evaluation of the instrumental and symbolic efficacy of the maji medicine, to understand its narrative efficacy in specific historical and geographical settings. The chapter considers the way stories of maji functioned as a set of ideas that came to be mobilized within and among societies in southern Tanzania. Narratives of maji medicine had transformative power for African communities experiencing danger and hardship. For Germans in Africa as well as in Europe stories of medicine influenced ideas and events. The agrarian function of medicine was embraced by those who believed that the war was based on peasant grievances and therefore rational; the stories about bullets turning into water were proof of a witchdoctor conspiracy and a refusal to adapt to the modern world.Keywords: African communities; Maji Maji war; maji medicine; modern world; southern Tanzania

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Authors
Monson, J.
Affiliations
Macalester College (US)
Corresponding author
Monson, Jamie
ORCID
Monson, Jamie
Venue
Maji Maji
Publisher
BRILL
Published
2010-01-01
Pages
31-69
DOI
10.1163/ej.9789004183421.i-325.11
OpenAlex
W898559957
Cited by
28
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0
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2023: 12 · 2021: 9 · 2020: 5 · 2017: 1 · 2015: 1
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book chapter
Language
en
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closed
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BRILL eBooks (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Anthropology › African history and culture studies
  • Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › History › German Colonialism and Identity Studies
  • Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › African Studies and Ethnography
Keywords
witchcraft, African traditional medicine, colonial medicine, German colonialism, southern Tanzania, peasant grievances, agrarianism, resistance to modernity

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