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Hardcover Ngoma: Discourses of Healing in Central and Southern Africa Volume 34 Book

ISBN: 0520072650

ISBN13: 9780520072657

Ngoma: Discourses of Healing in Central and Southern Africa Volume 34

(Part of the Comparative Studies of Health Systems and Medical Care Series)

Ngoma, in Bantu, means drum, song, performance, and healing cult or association. A widespread form of ritual healing in Central and Southern Africa, ngoma is fully investigated here for the first time and interpreted in a contemporary context. John Janzen's daring study incorporates drumming and spirit possession into a broader, institutional profile that emphasizes the varieties of knowledge and social forms and also the common...

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