Working with spirit experiencing izangoma healing in contemporary South Africa / [electronic resource] :
Jo Thobeka Wreford.
- New York : Berghahn Books, 2008.
- xiii, 260 p. : ill.
- Epistemologies of healing ; v. 3 .
- Epistemologies of healing ; v. 3. .
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.
DNLM
Traditional medicine--South Africa. Healing--South Africa.