The quest for fruition through ngoma : the political aspects of healing in Southern Africa

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The quest for fruition through ngoma : the political aspects of healing in Southern Africa

edited by Rijk van Dijk, Ria Reis, and Marja Spierenburg

Ohio University Press, c2000

  • : cl., Ohio University Press
  • : pa., Ohio University Press
  • : cl., James Currey
  • : paper, James Currey

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Also published: Cape Town : D. Philip ; Zomba : Kachere ; Lusaka : Bookworld ; Gweru : Mambo Press ; Oxford : James Currey

Includes bibliographical references and index

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巻冊次

: cl., James Currey ISBN 9780852552629

内容説明

The indigenous African healing system of music, dance, possession and trance is perhaps best known through John Janzen's Ngoma: Discourse of Healing in Central and Southern Africa . This collection engages with Janzen's analysisand examines ngoma in its culturally diverse manifestations.

目次

  • Introduction - beyond the confinement of affliction
  • a discursive field of experience, Rijk van Dijk, Ria Reis, Marja Spierenburg
  • kings, spirits and brides in Tanzania, Henny Blokland
  • gender and ngoma - the power of drums in Eastern Zambia, Annette Drews
  • the "wounded healer" as ideology - the work of ngoma in Swaziland, Ria Reis
  • social commentaries and the influence of the clientele - the case of the Mhondoro cult in Dande, Zimbabwe, Marja Spierenburg
  • the story of a scapegoat king in rural Malawi, Matthew Schoffeleers
  • the politics of therapeutic ngoma - the case of the Zionist churches in urban Zambia, Cor Jonker
  • ngoma, born-again fundamentalism and contesting representations of time in urban Malawi, Rijk van Dijk.
巻冊次

: paper, James Currey ISBN 9780852552636

内容説明

Rich ethnographic studies expanding the understanding of ngoma in Africa. The indigenous African healing system of music, dance, possession and trance is perhaps best known through John Janzen's book Ngoma: Discourse of Healing in Central and Southern Africa. This collection engages with Janzen'sanalysis and examines ngoma in its culturally diverse manifestations. North America: Ohio U Press

目次

  • Introduction - beyond the confinement of affliction
  • a discursive field of experience, Rijk van Dijk, Ria Reis, Marja Spierenburg
  • kings, spirits and brides in Tanzania, Henny Blokland
  • gender and ngoma - the power of drums in Eastern Zambia, Annette Drews
  • the "wounded healer" as ideology - the work of ngoma in Swaziland, Ria Reis
  • social commentaries and the influence of the clientele - the case of the Mhondoro cult in Dande, Zimbabwe, Marja Spierenburg
  • the story of a scapegoat king in rural Malawi, Matthew Schoffeleers
  • the politics of therapeutic ngoma - the case of the Zionist churches in urban Zambia, Cor Jonker
  • ngoma, born-again fundamentalism and contesting representations of time in urban Malawi, Rijk van Dijk.

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