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Ngoma : discourses of healing in central and southern Africa  Cover Image E-book E-book

Ngoma : discourses of healing in central and southern Africa

Janzen, John M. (Author).

Summary: Drawing on his recent field research in Kinshasa, Dar-es-Salaam, Mbabane, and Capetown, Janzen reveals how ngoma transcends national and social boundaries.

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  • ISBN: 0520072650
  • ISBN: 9780520072657
  • ISBN: 9781282356405
  • ISBN: 1282356402
  • ISBN: 9780585129327
  • ISBN: 0585129320
  • ISBN: 0520910850
  • ISBN: 9780520910850
  • Physical Description: 1 online resource (xv, 241 pages) : illustrations
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  • Publisher: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©1992.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-234) and index.
Formatted Contents Note: Settings and Samples in African Cults of Affliction -- Identifying Ngoma Historical and Comparative Perspectives -- Core Features in Ngoma Therapy -- Doing Ngoma: The Texture of Personal Transformation -- How Ngoma Works: Of Codes and Consciousness -- How Ngoma Works: The Social Reproduction of Health.
Source of Description Note:
Print version record.
Subject: Traditional medicine -- Africa, Southern
Traditional medicine -- Africa, Central
Healing -- Africa, Southern
Healing -- Africa, Central
Rites and ceremonies -- Africa, Southern
Rites and ceremonies -- Africa, Central
Ceremonial Behavior
Medicine, Traditional
Mental Healing
Africa, Central
Africa, Southern
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Folklore & Mythology
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- General
Healing
Rites and ceremonies
Traditional medicine
Central Africa
Southern Africa
Volksmedizin
Heilung
Ritual
Zentralafrika
South Africa
Volksgeneeskunde
Afrika
Ethnomédecine -- Afrique australe
Ethnomédecine -- Afrique centrale
Guérison Afrique (sud)
Guérison -- Afrique centrale
Rites et cérémonies -- Afrique australe
Rites et cérémonies -- Afrique centrale
Genre: Electronic books.
Electronic books.

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