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Sangoma

Author : James Hall
Publisher : Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9781402761911
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (619 download)

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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.

Africa in My Bones

Author : David Cumes
Publisher : New Africa Books
ISBN 13 : 9780864865564
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (655 download)

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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.

A Sangoma's Story - The Calling of Elliot Ndlovu

Author : Melanie Reeder
Publisher : Penguin Random House South Africa
ISBN 13 : 0143528564
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (435 download)

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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.

An Encyclopedia of Shamanism Volume 2

Author : Christina Pratt
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
ISBN 13 : 9781404211414
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (114 download)

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Download or read book An Encyclopedia of Shamanism Volume 2 written by Christina Pratt and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2007-08-01 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shamanism can be defined as the practice of initiated shamans who are distinguished by their mastery of a range of altered states of consciousness. Shamanism arises from the actions the shaman takes in non-ordinary reality and the results of those actions in ordinary reality. It is not a religion, yet it demands spiritual discipline and personal sacrifice from the mature shaman who seeks the highest stages of mystical development.

The Professionalisation of African Medicine

Author : Murray Last
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 042981612X
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (298 download)

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Download or read book The Professionalisation of African Medicine written by Murray Last and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-09-03 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1986, this book draws upon a range of authors to reflect wide interest in systematising traditional medicine, and to include material on significant instances of regulation or organisation. It was the first book to study the efforts of traditional healers and their newly formed professional associations and as such constitutes a pioneering collection of sources. Because of the changing position of traditional medicine it may well also be a unique record: before long what is described here will largely have disappeared.

Soul Talks

Author : Rod Suskin
Publisher : Juta and Company Ltd
ISBN 13 : 9781919930770
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (37 download)

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Download or read book Soul Talks written by Rod Suskin and published by Juta and Company Ltd. This book was released on 2004 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title is a compilation of five lectures that have proved increasingly popular - they have stimulated audiences to deep thought, lively debate and great realization of their own.

Working with Spirit

Author : Jo Thobeka Wreford
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 0857450158
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (574 download)

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Download or read book Working with Spirit written by Jo Thobeka Wreford and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2008-05-30 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Macbeth (Second International Student Edition) (Norton Critical Editions)

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393614751
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (936 download)

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Download or read book Macbeth (Second International Student Edition) (Norton Critical Editions) written by William Shakespeare and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2016-04-04 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A tragedy that evokes both pity and terror—now in a thoroughly revised and updated Norton Critical Edition. The Norton Critical Edition is again based on the First Folio (1623), the only authoritative text of the play. The volume includes a revised introduction and new annotations and textual notes. The Second Edition also includes the innovative feature “The Actors’ Gallery,” which presents famous actors and actresses—among them David Garrick, Sarah Siddons, Ian McKellen, Hira Mikijirô, Patrick Stewart, and Kate Fleetwood—reflecting on their roles in major productions of Macbeth for stage and screen. “Sources and Contexts” provides readers with an understanding of Macbeth’s origins in earlier texts, specifically the works of the Roman playwright Seneca, the Tudor historian Raphael Holinshed, and the medieval drama The Slaughter of the Innocents and the Death of Herod. Contexts for the play include contemporary debates on predestination versus free will (Martin Luther versus Erasmus), witchcraft as fiction or fact (Reginald Scott versus King James I), the ethics of regicide (an Elizabethan homily versus Jan de Mariana, S.J.), and the ethics of equivocation (Henry Garnet, S.J., versus—new to the Second Edition—Sir Edward Coke). Eight carefully chosen essays represent four hundred years of critical and theatrical interpretation. Contributors include Simon Forman, Samuel Johnson, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Thomas De Quincey, Harry Levin, Stephen Orgel, Peter Holland, and, presenting the latest arguments on the authorship controversy, Gary Taylor. Finally, an engaging new selection of Macbeth’s “Afterlives” includes excerpts from Giuseppi Verdi’s Macbeth and related letters, Eugene Ionesco’s Macbett (1972), Bill Cain’s Equivocation (2009), and more. This edition also provides a list of online and print resources.

Transito: The Truth behind the Big-Money Robberies

Author : Hennie Lochner
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000838331
Total Pages : 169 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Transito: The Truth behind the Big-Money Robberies written by Hennie Lochner and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-02-01 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an important resource for the cash in transit (CIT) companies, financial services industries and criminal justice system. With one of the authors having used convicts of CIT crimes as participants for a PhD study, he solicited data from the lived experiences of CIT robbers that reveal their modus operandi, which is crucial to combat these robberies. The authors reveal how CIT robbers meticulously plan and execute their ambushes collaborating with the sophisticated network of accomplices. The book is thus a timely publication that provides information to combat CIT crimes.

Becoming a Sangoma

Author : Tracey Derrick
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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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:

Tommy Boys, Lesbian Men, and Ancestral Wives

Author : Ruth Morgan
Publisher : Jacana Media
ISBN 13 : 9781770090934
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (99 download)

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Book Synopsis Tommy Boys, Lesbian Men, and Ancestral Wives by : Ruth Morgan

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

Ancestors and Antiretrovirals

Author : Claire Laurier Decoteau
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022606462X
Total Pages : 343 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (26 download)

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Book Synopsis Ancestors and Antiretrovirals by : Claire Laurier Decoteau

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.

Faith-Based Health Justice

Author : Ville Päivänsalo
Publisher : Fortress Press
ISBN 13 : 1506465439
Total Pages : 371 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (64 download)

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Download or read book Faith-Based Health Justice written by Ville Päivänsalo and published by Fortress Press. This book was released on 2021-02-16 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Faith-Based Health Justice, a stellar assembly of scholars mines critical insights into the promotion of health justice across Christian and Islamic faith traditions and beyond. Contributors to the volume consider what health justice might mean today, if developed in accordance with faith traditions whose commandment to care for the poor, ill, and marginalized lies at the core of their theology. And what kind of transformation of both faith traditions and public policies would be needed in the face of the health justice challenges in our turbulent time? Contributors to the volume come from a wide range of backgrounds, and the result will be of interest to scholars and students in social ethics, development studies, global theology, interreligious studies, and global health as well as experts, practitioners, and policy-makers in health and development work.

Olawu

Author : P. J. Leigh
Publisher : Brave Girls Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Olawu written by P. J. Leigh and published by Brave Girls Press. This book was released on 2023-07-01 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in a time and place unburdened by the devastation of colonialism, Olawu is a refreshing tale about a brave girl with a bold dream. Olawu is the eldest daughter of Kanakam’s only physician. Her strong will and compassionate nature are a constant source of conflict in her village. In Kanakam there are many rules for girls, and those who break them are often broken. Despite Kanakam’s restrictions against girls reading, writing, or working a trade, her father teaches her in secret. Inspired by his skill and shielded by his status, Olawu learns eagerly at his side, hoping to one day follow in his footsteps. Olawu’s world is upended when the Dikebe tribe takes over Kanakam. The Dikebe tribe has conquered dozens of villages west of the river as they wage a violent war against the Oloko tribe to the east. When tragedy strikes, Olawu and her family are left vulnerable to the harsh realities of Kanakam, including the forced marriage ritual known as the Choosing. As the eldest daughter, Olawu’s duty is to protect her family. But her father instilled in her a greater purpose, and the Choosing is no better than slavery. Driven to desperation, she seeks help from Dikembe, the son of the tribal warlord who has taken over her village. She hopes he will repay her father’s past kindness and shield her family, but hope is a fragile thing, and time is running out. Told in three parts, Olawu is an inspiring coming of age story, an immersive introduction to 19th century East Africa, and a Quarter Finalist for the 2023 BookLife Prize for Fiction.

Medical Identities

Author : Kent Maynard
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 9781845451004
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book Medical Identities written by Kent Maynard and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2007 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Illness and misfortune more broadly are ubiquitous; thus, healing roles or professions are also universal. Ironically, however, little attention has been paid to those who heal or promote wellbeing. These come in many different guises: in some societies, healing is highly professional and specialized; in some cases, it is more preventative, in others more interventionist. Based on rich and wide-ranging ethnographic data and especially written for this volume, these essays look at how a great variety of health providers are perceived - from traditional healers to physicians, from diviners to nursing home providers. Conversely, the authors also ask how healers, or those concerned with wider matters of well being, view themselves and to what degree social attitudes differ in regard to who these people are, as well as their power, prestige and activities. As these essays demonstrate, class, gender, sexuality, ethnicity, or state policy may all play formative roles in shaping the definition of health and wellbeing, how they are delivered, and the character and prestige of those who provide for our health and welfare in society.

African Spirits Speak

Author : Nicky Arden
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 162055349X
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (25 download)

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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.

Grasping the Root of Divine Power

Author : Hru Yuya T. Assaan-Anu
Publisher : ANU Sesh
ISBN 13 : 1453782923
Total Pages : 191 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (537 download)

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Download or read book Grasping the Root of Divine Power written by Hru Yuya T. Assaan-Anu and published by ANU Sesh. This book was released on 2010-09-19 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Grasping the Root of Divine Power" clarifies the fundamental concepts used in any occult system. The work pulls mainly from West African tradition but, is brought up to date using modern examples and guides for immediate application. The rarely taught nine position OBI divination system is shared and author HRU Assaan-ANU provides an approach of implementing this ancient oracle that will intrigue the novice and advanced student of divination. "Grasping the Root of Divine Power" covers the major Orisha in the West African tradition but, also shows their modern day and cross-geographical/cultural counterparts. After reading this work you'll be able to look at avant-garde figures of notoriety, as well, as your intimate ones and immediately decipher what Orisha or cosmic archetype they spawn from. This only scratches the surface of what is imparted in this potent work.