Working with spirit
Subtitle: experiencing izangoma healing in contemporary South Africa
By: Jo Thobeka Wreford.
Series: Epistemologies of healing -- v. 2
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 278
ISBN-13: 9781845454760
Subjects: Traditional medicine -- South Africa; Healing -- South Africa; Medicine, African Traditional -- South Africa; Health Policy -- South Africa
Description: xiii, 260 pages : 24 cm
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Conversations in anthropological theory and method; title: On the question of ancestors; title: Biomedicine and izangoma sinyanga-fundamental misunderstandings and avoidable mistakes medical disjuncts in the time of AIDS; title: On "being called" (ukubiswa); title: Graduation (goduswa) and ancestral evidences; title: What got into you? ancestral en-trancement; title: "Long-nosed izangoma" and relationship issues in the izangoma community; title: Witchcraft and izangoma sinyanga in the time of AIDS.