Experiencing ritual : a new interpretation of African healing /
"The scene is Zambia in 1985. A patient has been invaded by the tooth of a dead hunter, a spirit object which causes her much pain. Only a drum ritual can cure it. The company starts to sing and drum, and when at last the dramatic climax breaks, the anthropologist sees a six-inch blob--a kind o...
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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | English |
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Philadelphia :
University of Pennsylvania Press,
©1992.
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Series: | Series in contemporary ethnography.
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Online Access: | CONNECT CONNECT |