This paper looks at a particular autochthonous medical knowledge and practice of Yaka healers in peri-urban Kinshasa and rural southwestern Congo. It first presents a sequential analysis of the well-known mbwoolu healing cult, directed at types of affliction most of which I would characterize as deep depression and related insanity. The mbwoolu patient is first led into a state of fusion with the group, with the aid of rhythmic movement and music culminating in a trancepossession. Following this, the initiate undergoes a therapeutic seclusion lasting from one month to some nine months in an initiatory space in which a dozen or so statuettes or figurines are laid on a bed parallel to the patient\'s. In a play of mirrors between the figurines...
Includes abstract.Includes bibliographical references.This ethnographic study is intended to give vo...
Objective: In many traditional belief systems in Africa, including South Africa, mental health probl...
In all human societies, there are men and women who are chosen or elected to take care of the physic...
This paper looks at a particular autochthonous medical knowledge and practice of Yaka healers in per...
This paper gives insight into how Igbo healers of Southern Nigeria conceive of insanity and apply en...
The main objective of this thesis is to explore several selected healing rituals performed by the Mp...
This Yaka fetish figure (as called in older literature) or power figure, is attributed to the Suku p...
The volume draws from René Devischs encounters with groups in southsaharan Africa, primarily. The au...
UnrestrictedMany sub-Saharan African cultures share a worldview in which access to multiple levels o...
The aim of this study was to investigate perspectives and practices of Xhosa-speaking African tradit...
The Yaka, a tribe in the southwestern corner of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, have for over ...
The Guro people in the Guo territorial unit in Ivory Coast practice a divination dance called Dawa, ...
La notion de représentation culturelle n’a pas fait l’objet, jusqu’à présent, d’une analyse approfon...
The author illustrates alternative forms of syncretic procedure at work in three forms of “trance cu...
Mental illness is a burden of disease that, in many countries, is neglected; South Africa is no exce...
Includes abstract.Includes bibliographical references.This ethnographic study is intended to give vo...
Objective: In many traditional belief systems in Africa, including South Africa, mental health probl...
In all human societies, there are men and women who are chosen or elected to take care of the physic...
This paper looks at a particular autochthonous medical knowledge and practice of Yaka healers in per...
This paper gives insight into how Igbo healers of Southern Nigeria conceive of insanity and apply en...
The main objective of this thesis is to explore several selected healing rituals performed by the Mp...
This Yaka fetish figure (as called in older literature) or power figure, is attributed to the Suku p...
The volume draws from René Devischs encounters with groups in southsaharan Africa, primarily. The au...
UnrestrictedMany sub-Saharan African cultures share a worldview in which access to multiple levels o...
The aim of this study was to investigate perspectives and practices of Xhosa-speaking African tradit...
The Yaka, a tribe in the southwestern corner of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, have for over ...
The Guro people in the Guo territorial unit in Ivory Coast practice a divination dance called Dawa, ...
La notion de représentation culturelle n’a pas fait l’objet, jusqu’à présent, d’une analyse approfon...
The author illustrates alternative forms of syncretic procedure at work in three forms of “trance cu...
Mental illness is a burden of disease that, in many countries, is neglected; South Africa is no exce...
Includes abstract.Includes bibliographical references.This ethnographic study is intended to give vo...
Objective: In many traditional belief systems in Africa, including South Africa, mental health probl...
In all human societies, there are men and women who are chosen or elected to take care of the physic...