Speaking with vampires and angels: the ambivalent afterlives of Christian humanitarianism in rural Zambia
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DOI: 10.1080/02757206.2020.1711749
Abstract: ABSTRACT During the course of fieldwork at a Christian mission hospital in southern Zambia, I discovered that vernacular healers in the surrounding rural area were being visited by ‘angel spirits’ (bangelo) who offered them efficacious… read more here.
Keywords: humanitarianism; zambia; humanitarian biomedicine; speaking vampires ... See more keywords