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Title Introduction: beyond the confinement of affliction: a discursive field of experience
Full text http://hdl.handle.net/1887/9645
Date 2000
Author(s) Dijk,R.A.van; Reis,R.; Spierenburg,M.
Contributor(s) Dijk,R.A.van; Reis,R.; Spierenburg,M.
Abstract Ngoma, a southern African ritual of healing, dance, rhythm and rhyme, is at the heart of social effort to change the fortunes of individuals and communities so that well-being is restored. This collective volume investigates ngoma in its many and culturally diverse manifestations. Contributions: Rijk van Dijk, Ria Reis and Marja Spierenburg (introduction); Henny Blokland (the use of drums in weddings in Unyamwezi, Tanzania, as the key to their use in healing cults and politics); Annette Drews (gender and ngoma among the Kunda of eastern Zambia); Ria Reis (therapeutic ngoma in Swaziland); Marja Spierenburg (the influence of healers' clientele in the Mhondoro territorial cult in Dande, Zimbabwe); Matthew Schoffeleers (rain cults as therapeutic ngoma in the Mbona cult of rural Malawi); Cor Jonker (the politics of therapeutic ngoma as exemplified in the Zionist churches in urban Zambia); Rijk van Dijk (ngoma and born-again fundamentalism in urban Malawi). In the afterword, John M. Janzen takes up critically the challenges to his own work (1992) presented by the contributions in this volume.
Subject(s) Africa; Tanzania; Swaziland; Zimbabwe; Zambia; Malawi; African religions; faith healing
Publisher James Currey, London
Type of publication Article in monograph or in proceedings
Format application/pdf
Source The quest for fruition through ngoma: political aspects of healing in southern Africa, 1 - 11 (2000)
Repository Leiden - African Studies Centre Leiden
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