When a rash has two names: pese sorcery and kisigo spirits at Lake Tanganyika.
Anthropology & medicine August 1, 2018 Eva Bleyenberg, Koen Stroeken
This explorative and qualitative study, based on 27 interviews during two months of fieldwork, describes pese, an affliction of the skin that has conspicuously stayed under the radar of medico-anthropological research in Kigoma, a rural city in the northwest Tanzania. The condition reminds of a locally better known condition labeled kisigo, raising the question why two concepts of the same...