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Podcast: New Books in African Studies
Episode: Anne Gerritsen and Burton Cleetus, "Histories of Health and Materiality in the Indian Ocean World: Medicine, Material Culture and Trade, 1600-2000" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
Description: Histories of Health and Materiality in the Indian Ocean World: Medicine, Material Culture and Trade, 1600-2000Â (Bloomsbury, 2023):Â Introducing materiality into the study of the history of medicine, this volume hones in on communities across the Indian Ocean World and explores how they understood and engaged with health and medical commodities. Opening up spatial dimensions and challenging existing approaches to knowledge, power, and the market, it defines 'therapeutic commodity' and explores how different materials were understood and engaged with in various settings and for a number of purposes.Offering new spatial realms within which the circulation of commodities cr...