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Working with Spirit - Experiencing Izangoma Healing in Contemporary South Africa (Hardcover, illustrated edition)
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Working with Spirit - Experiencing Izangoma Healing in Contemporary South Africa (Hardcover, illustrated edition)
Series: Epistemologies of Healing
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In the current model of health dispensation in South Africa there
are two major paradigms, the spirit-inspired tradition of izangoma
sinyanga and biomedicine. These operate at best in parallel, but
more often than not are at odds with one another. This book, based
on the author's personal experience as a practitioner of
traditional African medicine, considers the effects of the absence
of spirit in biomedicine on collaborative relationships. Given the
unprecedented challenge of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in the country,
the author suggests that more cooperation is vital. Taking a
critical look at the role of anthropology in this endeavor, she
proposes the development of a "language of spirit" by means of
which the spirit-inspired aetiology of izangoma sinyanga may be
made comprehensible to academic scientists and applicable to
medical interventions. The author discusses white izangoma in the
context of current debates on healing and hybridity and insists
that there exists a powerful role for izangoma in the realm of
societal healing. Above all, the book constitutes a start in what
the author hopes will develop into an ongoing intellectual
conversation between traditional African healing, academe, and
biomedicine in South Africa.
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