Experiencing ritual : a new interpretation of African healing /

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"The scene is Zambia in 1985. A patient has been invaded by the tooth of a dead hunter, a spirit object which causes her much pain. Only a drum ritual can cure it. The company starts to sing and drum, and when at last the dramatic climax breaks, the anthropologist sees a six-inch blob--a kind o...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Turner, Edith L. B., 1921- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, ©1992.
Colección:Series in contemporary ethnography.
Temas:
Ndembu (African people) > Rites and ceremonies.
Ndembu (African people) > Religion.
Ndembu (African people) > Medicine.
Shamanism > Zambia.
Healing > Zambia > Religious aspects.
Mental healing.
Medicine > Religious aspects.
Medicine, African Traditional
Mental Healing
Religion and Medicine
Ndembu (Peuple d'Afrique) > Rites et cérémonies.
Ndembu (Peuple d'Afrique) > Religion.
Ndembu (Peuple d'Afrique) > Médecine.
Chamanisme > Zambie.
Guérison > Zambie > Aspect religieux.
Guérison par l'esprit.
Médecine > Aspect religieux.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > General.
Healing > Religious aspects
Ndembu (African people) > Religion
Ndembu (African people) > Rites and ceremonies
Shamanism
Ethnomedizin
Schamanismus
Geneeskunde.
Sjamanisme.
Lunda Ndembu.
Ndembu (peuple d'Afrique) > Rites et cérémonies.
Ndembu (peuple d'Afrique) > Religion.
Ndembu (peuple d'Afrique) > Médecine.
Guérison > Zambie.
Guérison > Aspect religieux.
Zambia.
Zambia
Zambie.
Sambia
Ndembu.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction. Two books on Ihamba: the effect of Victor Turner's study. Theorists of ritual. The groundings of the present ethnographic method
  • The field context of the Ihamba rituals in 1985. Time factor: history continues separately for Ndembu and Turners. Returning to Mukanza Village. The Ihamba tooth
  • The medicine quest for the first Ihamba. Medicine collection. Medicine preparation
  • The first Ihamba: the performance for Nyakanjata. The first tooth. Commentary. The second tooth
  • Discussion of the first Ihamba. Sakutoha. Nyakanjata. Healing and hunters. Mazu ("words"). Childbirth medicines in Ihamba. The ambiguities in Ihamba. The sequences and processes involved in extraction
  • Background to the second Ihamba. The Kawiko vicinage. Quarrels in the past. The hunters' conference: the significance of the hunter. Trouble with Morie
  • The second Ihamba: the performance for Meru
  • Ritual and the anthropology of experience. The event as fact: subjectivity and objectivity. The human tooth
  • Seeing spirits. The difficulties of the healer mode
  • Coda
  • African spirit healing and Ihamba
  • Types of spirit healers
  • Medicines and hallucinogens
  • Cupping with horns
  • Music and drumming
  • Drums, Ngoma
  • Drumming in Ihamba
  • Songs
  • The extraction of harmful intrusions
  • A composite Ihamba scenario
  • Old and new Ihamba compared
  • Matriliny, rituals, and religions: the 1985 Ndembu
  • Maps
  • Abridged genealogy of the Kahona family.

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