Working with spirit [electronic resource] : experiencing izangoma healing in contemporary South Africa / Jo Thobeka Wreford.

By: Wreford, Jo ThobekaContributor(s): ProQuest (Firm)Material type: TextTextSeries: Epistemologies of healing ; v. 3.Publication details: New York : Berghahn Books, 2008Description: xiii, 260 p. : illSubject(s): Traditional medicine -- South Africa | Healing -- South AfricaGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 610.968 LOC classification: GR358 | .W74 2008Online resources: Click to View
Contents:
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.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 229-249) and index.

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.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

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