Healing the Exposed Being
The Ngoma healing tradition in South Africa
This ethnography explores the Ngoma healing tradition as practiced in eastern Mpumalanga, South Africa. 'Bungoma' is an active philosophical system and healing practice consisting of multiple strands, based on the notion that humans are intrinsically exposed to each other and that this is the cause of illness, but also the condition for the possibility of healing. This healing seeks to protect the 'exposed being' from harm through augmenting the self. Unlike Western medicine, it does not seek to cure physical ailments but aims to prevent suffering by allowing patients to transform their personal narratives of Self. Like Western medicine, it i…
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- ISBN: 978-1-77614-020-6
- EAN: 9781776140206
- Produktnummer: 27772817
- Verlag: Wits University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
- Seitenangabe: 304 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 8'539 KB
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Robert Thornton has conducted long-term ethnographic research in South Africa as an anthropologist at University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg since 1992, and in Tanzania and Uganda. He obtained his PhD from the University of Chicago, and previously taught at the University of Cape Town.
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