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Ngoma discourses of healing in central and southern Africa

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

Record details

ISBN: 9780520910850 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 0520910850 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 0585129320 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 9780585129327 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 0520072650
Physical Description: electronic resource
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1 online resource (xv, 241 p.) : ill.
Publisher: Berkeley : University of California Press, c1992.

Content descriptions

General Note:	Terms of use - Multi-user. Multi-User. CatMonthString:jun.14 CatMonthString:february.14
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (p. 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:	Description based on print version record.