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Discourses of Healing in Central and Southern Africa
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Description

"Ngoma" in Bantu means drum, song performance and healing cult or association. A widespread form of ritual healing in Central and Southern Africa, ngoma is fully investigated here and interpreted in a contemporary context. John Janzen's study incorporates drumming and spirit possession into a broader, institutional profile that emphasizes the varieties of knowledge and social forms and also the common elements of "doing ngoma". Drawing on his recent field research in Kinshasa, Dar-es-Salaam, Mbabane and Capetown, Janzen reveals how ngoma transcends national and social boundaries. Spoken and sung discourses about affliction, extended counselling, reorientation of the self or household, and the creation of networks that link the afflicted, their kin and their healers are all central to ngoma - and familiar to Western self-help institutions as well.

Author Biography:

John M. Janzen is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Kansas. His previous books include Lemba 1650-1930 (1982), and Quest for Therapy in Lower Zaire (California, 1978), which won the Wellcome Prize and Medal of the Royal Anthropological Institute.
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October 21st, 1992
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Audiences
  • Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
  • Professional & Vocational
  • Undergraduate
Pages
276
Dimensions
158x235x34
ISBN-13
9780520072657
Product ID
3939875

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