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

James Currey, 1999

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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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.

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