Za using'anga ndi ufiti: about healing practice and witchcraft : a culture & personality study of traditional healers in southern Malawi
| Published in: | Studien zur Ethnopsychologie und Ethnopsychoanalyse |
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| Subtitles: | About healing practice and witchcraft |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| Language: | English Chichewa |
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| Fernleihe: | Fernleihe für die Fachinformationsdienste |
| Published: |
Wien Zürich Münster
Lit
[2016]
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| In: |
Studien zur Ethnopsychologie und Ethnopsychoanalyse (Band 9)
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| Series/Journal: | Studien zur Ethnopsychologie und Ethnopsychoanalyse
Band 9 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Malawi (Süd)
/ Ethnic medicine
/ Healer
/ Magician
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| RelBib Classification: | AD Sociology of religion; religious policy AE Psychology of religion AG Religious life; material religion BS Traditional African religions KBN Sub-Saharan Africa |
| Further subjects: | B
Healers
Malawi
B Traditional medicine B Malawi Malawi B Traditional medicine Malawi B Tumbuka (African people) Rites and ceremonies B Healers |
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Table of Contents Blurb Literaturverzeichnis |
| Item Description: | "In this book, cultural anthropologist Moya A. Malamusi gives readers a rare inside vision of the personalities and healing practices of traditional using'anga (healers) in Malawi, south-east Africa. His account is based on over thirty years of participant field experience. In this study, the world views and methods of healers become directly accessible through field interviews transcribed in Chichewa and translated with annotations on terminology."--Back cover. - Includes bibliographical references (pages 188-193). - English text with passages in Nyanja with parallel English translations from the Nyanja |
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| ISBN: | 3643907648 |