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catalog contributor b3774430.
catalog coverage "Africa, Central.".
catalog coverage "Africa, Southern.".
catalog created "c1992.".
catalog date "1992".
catalog date "c1992.".
catalog dateCopyrighted "c1992.".
catalog description "1. Settings and Samples in African Cults of Affliction -- "Grands Rites" of Kinshasa -- Ngoma on the Swahili Coast -- Sangoma: Divining the Stresses of Rapid Industrialization in North Nguni Society -- Amagqira: Surviving the Townships of South Africa -- 2. Identifying Ngoma: Historical and Comparative Perspectives -- Bantu Conundrum -- Lexicon of a Classical Sub-Saharan Therapeutics -- Instruments of Ritual Healing as a Nonverbal Cognate Set -- Social and Political Variables of a Complex Institution -- Scholarly Blinders and the Ontology of a Unique Institution -- 3. Core Features in Ngoma Therapy -- Sickness and Therapeutic Initiation as a Phased Rite of Passage -- Diagnosis of Misfortune -- Nosology and Spirit Fields -- Course through the White -- Sacrifice and Exchange -- Sufferer Becomes the Healer -- 4. Doing Ngoma: The Texture of Personal Transformation -- Text and Texture in African Healing -- "Doing Ngoma": The Core Ritual Unit -- Common Songs and Personal Song in Ngoma Narrative Tradition -- Structure of Ngoma Therapeutic Communication -- Of Music and Ritual in Ngoma -- 5. How Ngoma Works: Of Codes and Consciousness -- Personal Experience and Cultural Reality -- Spirit Logic and Therapeutic Discourse -- From Spirit to Song-Dance: Articulating Metaphors of Difficult Experience -- Ngoma and Specialized Knowledge -- 6. Now Ngoma Works: The Social Reproduction of Health -- Health and Health Indicators -- Social Reproduction of Health -- Profiles of Ngoma Social Reproduction. Appendix A: Partial Listing of Guthrie's Inventory of Bantu Languages -- Appendix B: Distributions of Terms in Bantu Languages Pertaining to Therapeutic Concepts and Actions -- Appendix C: Instrumentation Accompanying Healing Rituals in Central and Southern Africa.".
catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
catalog extent "xv, 241 p., [16] p. of plates :".
catalog identifier "0520072650".
catalog isPartOf "Comparative studies of health systems and medical care ; 34".
catalog isPartOf "Comparative studies of health systems and medical care ; no. 34.".
catalog issued "1992".
catalog issued "c1992.".
catalog language "eng".
catalog publisher "Berkeley : University of California Press,".
catalog spatial "Africa, Central.".
catalog spatial "Africa, Southern.".
catalog subject "398/.353 20".
catalog subject "Ceremonial Behavior Africa, Central.".
catalog subject "Ceremonial Behavior Africa, Southern.".
catalog subject "Ceremonial Behavior.".
catalog subject "GR358 .J36 1992".
catalog subject "Healing Africa, Central.".
catalog subject "Healing Africa, Southern.".
catalog subject "Medicine, Traditional Africa, Central.".
catalog subject "Medicine, Traditional Africa, Southern.".
catalog subject "Medicine, Traditional.".
catalog subject "Mental Healing Africa, Central.".
catalog subject "Mental Healing Africa, Southern.".
catalog subject "Mental Healing.".
catalog subject "Rites and ceremonies Africa, Central.".
catalog subject "Rites and ceremonies Africa, Southern.".
catalog subject "Traditional medicine Africa, Central.".
catalog subject "Traditional medicine Africa, Southern.".
catalog subject "WB 50 HA1 J3n 1992".
catalog tableOfContents "1. Settings and Samples in African Cults of Affliction -- "Grands Rites" of Kinshasa -- Ngoma on the Swahili Coast -- Sangoma: Divining the Stresses of Rapid Industrialization in North Nguni Society -- Amagqira: Surviving the Townships of South Africa -- 2. Identifying Ngoma: Historical and Comparative Perspectives -- Bantu Conundrum -- Lexicon of a Classical Sub-Saharan Therapeutics -- Instruments of Ritual Healing as a Nonverbal Cognate Set -- Social and Political Variables of a Complex Institution -- Scholarly Blinders and the Ontology of a Unique Institution -- 3. Core Features in Ngoma Therapy -- Sickness and Therapeutic Initiation as a Phased Rite of Passage -- Diagnosis of Misfortune -- Nosology and Spirit Fields -- Course through the White -- Sacrifice and Exchange -- Sufferer Becomes the Healer -- 4. Doing Ngoma: The Texture of Personal Transformation -- Text and Texture in African Healing -- "Doing Ngoma": The Core Ritual Unit -- Common Songs and Personal Song in Ngoma Narrative Tradition -- Structure of Ngoma Therapeutic Communication -- Of Music and Ritual in Ngoma -- 5. How Ngoma Works: Of Codes and Consciousness -- Personal Experience and Cultural Reality -- Spirit Logic and Therapeutic Discourse -- From Spirit to Song-Dance: Articulating Metaphors of Difficult Experience -- Ngoma and Specialized Knowledge -- 6. Now Ngoma Works: The Social Reproduction of Health -- Health and Health Indicators -- Social Reproduction of Health -- Profiles of Ngoma Social Reproduction. Appendix A: Partial Listing of Guthrie's Inventory of Bantu Languages -- Appendix B: Distributions of Terms in Bantu Languages Pertaining to Therapeutic Concepts and Actions -- Appendix C: Instrumentation Accompanying Healing Rituals in Central and Southern Africa.".
catalog title "Ngoma : discourses of healing in central and southern Africa / John M. Janzen.".
catalog type "text".