Quest for Fruition Through Ngoma : The Political Aspects of Healing in Southern Africa - Rijk van Dijk

Quest for Fruition Through Ngoma

The Political Aspects of Healing in Southern Africa

By: Rijk van Dijk (Editor), Ria Reis (Editor), Marja Spierenburg (Editor)

Paperback | 1 January 2000

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The indigenous African healing system of music, dance, possession and trance is perhaps best known through John Janzen's book Ngoma: Discourse of Healing in Central and Southern Africa. This collection engages with Janzen's analysis and examines ngoma in its culturally diverse manifestations.

North America: Ohio U Press
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... rich ethnography and provocative intellectual engagement. - Michael Humphrey in ASAAP The book as a whole shows anthropology in transition, struggling with its own past and its future, as the authors discover new aspects to healing and reach for parallels elsewhere. In a concluding review, Janzen comments on the rich and varied ethnography these essays offer, traces his own scholarly quest from his studies of healing in Lower Congo to Ngoma, and notes that Ngoma is becoming a worldwide phenomenon. - Wyatt Macgaffey in BULLETIN of SOAS

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