204246695

Working with spirit : experiencing izangoma healing in contemporary South Africa / Jo Thobeka Wreford

New York [u.a.] : Berghahn Books, 2008

XIII, 260 S. : Ill. ; 24 cm

Epistemologies of healing ; 3

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

Includes bibliographical references (p. 229-249) and index

978-1-84545-476-0 ; 1-84545-476-6

 

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