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CONTRIBUTORS Clara Carvalho is Professor at the Department of Anthropology and chair of the Center of African Studies (CEA-ISCTE) at the Lisbon University Institute. She is currently conducting research on health and migration among African migrants in Europe and directing a project on women’s access to private health care in Africa. Hansjörg Dilger is Junior Professor of Social and Cultural Anthropology at Freie Universität Berlin. He is co-editor (with Ute Luig) of Morality, Hope, and Grief: Anthropologies of AIDS in Africa and has published articles in a range of journals, including Medical Anthropology, Anthropological Quarterly, Afria Today, and African Diaspora. Viola Hörbst is an investigator at the Center of African Studies (CEA-IUL) at the University Institute of Lisbon (ISCTE-IUL). Recent publications in English include “Reproductive Disruptions: African Perspectives” in Curare and “Focusing Male Infertility in Mali: Kinship and Impacts on Biomedical Practice in Bamako” in Muslim Medical Ethics: Theory and Practice. Elisabeth Hsu is Professor of Social Anthropology at the School of Anthropology , University of oxford, and a Fellow of Green Templeton College. Publications include The Transmission of Chinese Medicine; The Telling Touch: Pulse Diagnosis in Early Chinese Medicine; and Chinese Medicine in East Africa. John M. Janzen is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Kansas. He is guest curator of the exhibition project “African Healing Journeys” for the Penn Museum, a preview version of which was shown at the University of Kansas in connection with the conference “Medical Anthropology in Global Africa.” Abdoulaye Kane is Associate Professor in Anthropology and the Center for African Studies at the University of Florida. He is author of Tontines, caisses de solidarité et banquiers ambulants: L’univers des pratiques financières informelles en Afrique et dans le milieu immigré africain en France, along with many articles and book chapters in both French and English on the transnational practices of Senegalese living in Europe and the United States. 338 CoNTRIBUToRS Stacey A. Langwick is Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology at Cornell University. She is also an associate in the Law, organization, Science, and Technology Project at the Max Planck Institute in Germany. She has published articles in a range of journals, including the American Ethnologist , Medical Anthropology, and Science, Technology, and Human Values. She contributed to Borders and Healers (IUP, 2006) and is author of Bodies, Politics, and African Healing (IUP, 2011). Adeline Masquelier is Professor of Anthropology and chair of the Department of Anthropology at Tulane University. She is author of Prayer Has Spoiled Everything: Possession, Power, and Identity in an Islamic Town of Niger and Women and Islamic Revival in a West African Town (IUP, 2009), which won the 2010 Melville J. Herskovits Award for best scholarly book on Africa. She is editor of the Journal of Religion in Africa and of Dirt, Undress, and Difference: Critical Perspectives on the Body’s Surface (IUP, 2005). Adam Mohr is a Senior Writing Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania’s Critical Writing Program. He is currently writing a book titled Enchanted Calvinism : Labor Migration, Afflicting Spirits, and Christian Therapy in the Presbyterian Church of Ghana. Kristin Peterson is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Irvine. She is currently finishing a book project on pharmaceutical markets in Nigeria, which analyzes the politics of pharmaceutical distribution in the aftermath of the 1980s economic crisis and structural adjustment. Marja Tiilikainen is Postdoctoral Researcher at the Department of Social Research, University of Helsinki. Publications include Arjen islam: Somalinaisten elämää Suomessa [Everyday Islam: The Life of Somali Women in Finland ] and chapters in Milk and Peace, Drought and War and Spirit Possession and Trance. Her current research project entitled “Suffering, Healing, and Healthcare : The Transnational Lives of Somalis in Exile” is being funded by the Academy of Finland). Angelika Wolf is Instructor at the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the Freie Universität Berlin. She is co-founder of the working group “Medical Anthropology” within the German Anthropological Association and was its president for seven years. Currently she is preparing a book on health insurance in the context of globalization. ...

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