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Working with spirit : experiencing izangoma healing in contemporary South Africa
Author
Title
Working with spirit : experiencing izangoma healing in contemporary South Africa / Jo Thobeka Wreford.
ISBN
9781845454760 (hardback : alk. paper)
1845454766 (hardback : alk. paper)
Published
New York : Berghahn Books, 2008.
Physical Description
xiii, 260 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
July 21, 2008
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 229-249) and index.
Contents
Conversations in anthropological theory and method
On the question of ancestors
Biomedicine and izangoma sinyanga
fundamental misunderstandings and avoidable mistakes
On "being called" (ukubiswa)
Graduation (goduswa) and ancestral evidences
What got into you? Ancestral en-trancement
"Long-nosed" izangoma and relationship issues in the izangoma community
Witchcraft and izangoma sinyanga in the time of AIDS.
Subjects
Subjects (Medical)
Medicine, African Traditional - South Africa.
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