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Healing the Exposed Being : The Ngoma healing tradition in South Africa /
This ethnography explores the Ngoma healing tradition as practised in eastern Mpumalanga, South Africa. 'Bungoma' is an active philosophical system and healing practice consisting of multiple strands that is basedon the notion that humans are intrinsically exposed to each other; while this...
| Cote: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Électronique eBook |
| Langue: | Inglés |
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Baltimore, Maryland :
Project Muse,
2017
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| Collection: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Table des matières:
- 1. Bungoma or 'philosophy of the drum' in the South African Lowveld
- 2. The material logic of evil and the augmented self
- 3. 'Cleaves Water', eats intwaso : becoming a healer in the bungoma tradition
- 4 The transmission of knowledge in bungoma
- 5. Healing conflict : the politics of interpersonal distress
- 6. Marginal utilities and the 'hidden hand' of zombies
- 7. The market for healing and the elasticity of belief
- 8. Apotropaic magic and the sangoma's patient
- 9. Magical weevils and amaryllis in southern African ritual landscapes
- 10. Magical empiricism and the 'exposed being' in public health and traditional healing.