Working with spirit
Subtitle: experiencing izangoma healing in contemporary South Africa
By: Jo Thobeka Wreford.
Series: Epistemologies of healing -- v. 3
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9781845454760
Subjects: Traditional medicine -- South Africa.; Healing -- South Africa.; Medicine, African Traditional -- South Africa.; Health Policy -- South Africa.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 229-249) and index.
Table of contents: value: Conversations in anthropological theory and method; value: On the question of ancestors; value: Biomedicine and izangoma sinyanga; value: fundamental misunderstandings and avoidable mistakes; value: On "being called" (ukubiswa); value: Graduation (goduswa) and ancestral evidences; value: What got into you? Ancestral en-trancement; value: "Long-nosed" izangoma and relationship issues in the izangoma community; value: Witchcraft and izangoma sinyanga in the time of AIDS.