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Author : Tracey Derrick
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Becoming a Sangoma written by Tracey Derrick and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Melanie Reeder
Publisher : Penguin Random House South Africa
ISBN 13 : 0143528564
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (435 download)
Download or read book A Sangoma's Story - The Calling of Elliot Ndlovu written by Melanie Reeder and published by Penguin Random House South Africa. This book was released on 2012-09-27 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My body has two lives, the spiritual as well as the physical.' These are the words of Elliot Ndlovu, a traditional healer (sangoma) who lives deep in the Drakensberg Mountains of KwaZulu-Natal. He lives two lives, dividing time between his rural homestead and a world-class hotel and spa, constantly bridging the differences between these opposing worlds. As a young man, he was awoken in the dead of night by an apparition sent by his ancestors. In terror, he fled to a river where he was submerged until sunrise. On the bottom of a riverbed, he claimed to acquire all the knowledge of his cultural heritage to heal bodies and minds. Ndlovu is a natural conservationist and leader who believes in the preservation of indigenous flora, in the strength of community, and in ubuntu, the philosophy that the universal bonds of humanity are what bind us. KwaZulu-Natal's violent path to democracy mirrored his own turbulent journey through mental illness - his uthwasa, the necessary process of suffering to become a traditional healer. But torment and tragedy led to consultations with Oscar nominees in Hollywood, a meeting with the British Queen, and a Christmas visit from a former state president. Ndlovu's tales of storm-chasing and magical serpents may be challenging for some, but the poignancy of his story and unwavering belief in African traditional healing are what endear him to the most hardened cynic. Melanie Reeder has captured the essence of this modern sangoma. She sheds light on the beauty of Zulu culture, and clarifies misconceptions about traditional healing.
Author : James Hall
Publisher : Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9781402761911
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (619 download)
Download or read book Sangoma written by James Hall and published by Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.. This book was released on 2009 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nothing in James Hall's life prepared him for what happened. When he was in Africa writing about the legendary singer Miriam Makeba, she perceived he had the rare gift to see both into the future and into people's souls. At her urging, Hall consulted a sangoma, a traditional healer, who told him he was possessed by ancestral spirits. Hall could receive the power to heal others and to become a sangoma himself ... if he was willing to take the risk. He did - embracing an uncertain future and undergoing a two-year spiritual and physical ordeal. What he experienced shook his grasp of reality to the core as he surrendered himself to souls from the spirit world, learned to read messages in divination bones and attained a lifetime's worth of knowledge about collecting and preparing the plants used in traditional medicine. James Hall has written a candid, dramatically personal account of his unique spiritual journey.
Author : Ingo Lambrecht, Ph.d.
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781496145536
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (455 download)
Download or read book Sangoma Trance States written by Ingo Lambrecht, Ph.d. and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-03-01 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring Indigenous Consciousness Disciplines in South Africa. What does happen in the mind of a trancing sangoma, the traditional healer of South Africa? Dr Ingo Lambrecht, a renowned clinical psychologist and a sangoma himself, explores this question, not only through his own personal experiences, but also through the words of powerful sangomas. This book skilfully interweaves personal experiences with scholarly research, into an unusual tapestry that carefully maps the specific trance states of sangomas. It explores some of the consciousness disciplines available to sangomas. The powerful sangomas not only share with Dr Lambrecht their own maddening pain during their spiritual initiation, but also speak of their effective techniques, practices and psi effects whilst in different trance states. The specific mapping of sangoma trance states is compared to other indigenous shamanic practices around the world. From this meticulous integrative work, a model of sangoma trance states emerges that has been endorsed by sangomas as being close to their own experiences of mastering their altered states of consciousness. A unique book.
Author : Nkunzi Zandile Nkabinde
Publisher : Jacana Media
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Black Bull, Ancestors and Me written by Nkunzi Zandile Nkabinde and published by Jacana Media. This book was released on 2008 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nkunzi wrote the book to create awareness and force people to question their stereotypes, to begin to challenge the perception that it is not African to be a sangoma and a homosexual.
Author : Unathi Magubeni
Publisher : Blackbird Books
ISBN 13 : 1928337260
Total Pages : 89 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (283 download)
Download or read book Nwelezelanga written by Unathi Magubeni and published by Blackbird Books. This book was released on 2017-03-30 with total page 89 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With a rich vocabulary that is poetic and uncluttered, this debut novel is nothing short of a masterpiece. It is both a well-written and philosophical book. The story begins with Nokwakha giving birth at her village home, and when it is discovered that the child is an albino the midwife convinces her that it is a curse and she should snuff the life out of it before it takes another breath. The dreadful deed is done by the river, but the 'all-knowing one' has other plans ... With an assured voice and eloquent prose, Magubeni invites us into the life of this extraordinary being, Nwelezelanga, the child who should not have been, contrasting the themes of darkness and light, embracing the unknown and unseen in a way no one else has - or can.
Author : Wim M. J. van Binsbergen
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
ISBN 13 : 9783825867836
Total Pages : 618 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (678 download)
Download or read book Intercultural Encounters written by Wim M. J. van Binsbergen and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 2003 with total page 618 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings together fifteen essays investigating aspects of interculturality. Like its author, it operates at the borderline between social anthropology and intercultural philosophy. It seeks to make a contribution to intercultural philosophy, by formulating with great precision and painful honesty the lessons deriving from extensive intercultural experiences as an anthropologist. Its culminating section presents an intercultural philosophy revolving on the tenet 'cultures do not exist'. The kaleidoscopic nature of intercultural experiences is reflected in the diversity of these texts. Many belong to a field that could be described as "meta-anthropology", others are more clearly philosophical; occasionally they spill over into belles lettres, ancient history, and comparative cultural and religious studies. The ethnographic specifics supporting the arguments are diverse, deriving from various African situations in which the author has conducted participatory field research (Tunisia, Zambia, Botswana, and South Africa).
Author : Susan Schuster Campbell
Publisher : Lotus Press
ISBN 13 : 0914955918
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (149 download)
Download or read book Called to Heal written by Susan Schuster Campbell and published by Lotus Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book tells the story of some remarkable people from the African Healing tradition. It exposes many of us, for the first time, to ways of relating to our world that are holistic and shamanistic in nature, adding real quality and value to our lives. It challenges us to integrate the contribution of African healing methods, and these extraordinary healers, into a new healthier vision of our future.
Author : Musa W. Dube
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1003852424
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (38 download)
Download or read book African Women Legends and the Spirituality of Resistance written by Musa W. Dube and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-03-11 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume focuses on African indigenous women legends and their potential to serve as midwives for gender empowerment and for contributing towards African feminist theories. It considers the intersection of gender and spirituality in subverting patriarchy, colonialism, anthropocentricism, and capitalism as well as elevating African women to the social space of speaking as empowered subjects with public influence. The chapters examine historical, cultural, and religious African women legends who became champions of liberation and their approach to social justice. The authors suggest that their stories of resistance hold great potential for building justice-loving Earth Communities. This book will be of interest to scholars of religion, gender studies, indigenous studies, African studies, African-indigenous knowledges, postcolonial studies, among others.
Author : Ruth Morgan
Publisher : Jacana Media
ISBN 13 : 9781770090934
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (99 download)
Download or read book Tommy Boys, Lesbian Men, and Ancestral Wives written by Ruth Morgan and published by Jacana Media. This book was released on 2005 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher description
Author : Roy Moodley
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 0761930477
Total Pages : 377 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (619 download)
Download or read book Integrating Traditional Healing Practices Into Counseling and Psychotherapy written by Roy Moodley and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2005-04-20 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book seeks to define, redefine and identify indigenous and traditional healing in the context of North American and Western European health care, particularly in counseling psychology and psychotherapy.
Author : Sanya Osha
Publisher : Rodopi
ISBN 13 : 9042033185
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)
Download or read book Postethnophilosophy written by Sanya Osha and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2011-04 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book makes a bold announcement for the beginning of a postethnophilosophical phase in modern African thought. It re-considers the question: “What is African philosophy,” and introduces a strategy for setting a broad and productive agenda for contemporary African philosophical thought.
Author : Claire Laurier Decoteau
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022606462X
Total Pages : 343 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (26 download)
Download or read book Ancestors and Antiretrovirals written by Claire Laurier Decoteau and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2013-09-30 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the years since the end of apartheid, South Africans have enjoyed a progressive constitution, considerable access to social services for the poor and sick, and a booming economy that has made their nation into one of the wealthiest on the continent. At the same time, South Africa experiences extremely unequal income distribution, and its citizens suffer the highest prevalence of HIV in the world. As Archbishop Desmond Tutu has noted, “AIDS is South Africa’s new apartheid.” In Ancestors and Antiretrovirals, Claire Laurier Decoteau backs up Tutu’s assertion with powerful arguments about how this came to pass. Decoteau traces the historical shifts in health policy after apartheid and describes their effects, detailing, in particular, the changing relationship between biomedical and indigenous health care, both at the national and the local level. Decoteau tells this story from the perspective of those living with and dying from AIDS in Johannesburg’s squatter camps. At the same time, she exposes the complex and often contradictory ways that the South African government has failed to balance the demands of neoliberal capital with the considerable health needs of its population.
Author : Robert Thornton
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 1776140206
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (761 download)
Download or read book Healing the Exposed Being written by Robert Thornton and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2017-05-01 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This ethnography explores the Ngoma healing tradition as practiced in eastern Mpumalanga, South Africa. ‘Bungoma’ is an active philosophical system and healing practice consisting of multiple strands, based on the notion that humans are intrinsically exposed to each other and that this is the cause of illness, but also the condition for the possibility of healing. This healing seeks to protect the ‘exposed being’ from harm through augmenting the self. Unlike Western medicine, it does not seek to cure physical ailments but aims to prevent suffering by allowing patients to transform their personal narratives of Self. Like Western medicine, it is empirical and is presented as a ‘local knowledge’ that amounts to a practical anthropology of human conflict and the environment. The book seeks to bring this anthropology and its therapeutic applications into relation with global academic anthropology by explaining it through political, economic, interpretive, and environmental lenses
Author : Sarah E. Boslaugh
Publisher : SAGE Publications
ISBN 13 : 1483349993
Total Pages : 1883 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (833 download)
Download or read book The SAGE Encyclopedia of Pharmacology and Society written by Sarah E. Boslaugh and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 2015-09-15 with total page 1883 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The SAGE Encyclopedia of Pharmacology and Society explores the social and policy sides of the pharmaceutical industry and its pervasive influence in society. While many technical STM works explore the chemistry and biology of pharmacology and an equally large number of clinically oriented works focus on use of illegal drugs, substance abuse, and treatment, there is virtually nothing on the immensely huge business (“Big Pharma”) of creating, selling, consuming, and regulating legal drugs. With this new Encyclopedia, the topic of socioeconomic, business and consumer, and legal and ethical issues of the pharmaceutical industry in contemporary society around the world are addressed. Key Features: 800 signed articles, authored by prominent scholars, are arranged A-to-Z and published in a choice of electronic or print formats Although arranged A-to-Z, a Reader's Guide in the front matter groups articles by thematic areas Front matter also includes a Chronology highlighting significant developments in this field All articles conclude with Further Readings and Cross References to related articles Back matter includes an annotated Resource Guide to further research, a Glossary, Appendices (e.g., statistics on the amount and types of drugs prescribed, etc.), and a detailed Index The Index, Reader’s Guide, and Cross References combine for search-and-browse capabilities in the electronic edition The SAGE Encyclopedia of Pharmacology and Society is an authoritative and rigorous source addressing the pharmacology industry and how it influences society, making it a must-have reference for all academic libraries as a source for both students and researchers to utilize.
Author : Nicky Arden
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 162055349X
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (25 download)
Download or read book African Spirits Speak written by Nicky Arden and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1999-02-01 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The moving story of an expatriate coming to terms with her country's history, and her joyous spiritual and emotional rebirth as an African healer. • One of the first accounts of the mysterious sangomas, the healers of South Africa's black population. • A mystical journey that will appeal to those wishing to reunite with their roots and a more spiritual life. Set against the stirring backdrop of a crumbling apartheid regime, African Spirits Speak is the lyrical account of white South African Nicky Arden's journey into the world of the sangomas, the diviners, doctors, psychologists, and priests of South Africa's black population. While in her early twenties Nicky fled South Africa with her husband as the stranglehold of apartheid tightened on her native land. For twenty-two years they lived in California as expatriates--never once returning to their homeland--until a deep depression, followed by a spiritual awakening in the California desert, compelled Nicky to return to South Africa. During her visit, while exploring deep in the bush, she unexpectedly met an old black medicine woman--a sangoma. This meeting would change her life. Few white South Africans are even aware of the world of the sangomas, but this prophetic old woman saw in Nicky the spirit of a fellow healer and set the author on a mystical journey that would reunite her soul with its African roots. Thus began her astonishing and complex initiation into a nearly unknown world and her quest to discover the truth about herself and her heritage.
Author : David Cumes
Publisher : New Africa Books
ISBN 13 : 9780864865564
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (655 download)
Download or read book Africa in My Bones written by David Cumes and published by New Africa Books. This book was released on 2004 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book is a fascinating account of a surgeon "s odyssey into the spirit world of African healing. It is the story of his initiation as a sangoma and how his life has been changed and enriched by the experience. It includes photographs of the author "s training.
