Sangoma

Author : James Hall
Publisher : Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 1402761910

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Sangoma by James Hall Pdf

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 : David Cumes
Publisher : New Africa Books
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Healers
ISBN : 0864865562

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Africa in My Bones by David Cumes Pdf

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.

Author : Melanie Reeder
Publisher : Penguin Random House South Africa
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2012-09-27
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9780143528562

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A Sangoma's Story - The Calling of Elliot Ndlovu by Melanie Reeder Pdf

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 : Christina Pratt
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2007-08-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1404211411

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An Encyclopedia of Shamanism Volume 2 by Christina Pratt Pdf

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.

Author : Murray Last,G. L. Chavunduka
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2018-09-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780429816123

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The Professionalisation of African Medicine by Murray Last,G. L. Chavunduka Pdf

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.

Author : Rod Suskin
Publisher : Juta and Company Ltd
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1919930779

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Soul Talks by Rod Suskin Pdf

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.

Author : Daniel Fischlin,Mark Fortier
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2014-05-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781134692095

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Adaptations of Shakespeare by Daniel Fischlin,Mark Fortier Pdf

Shakespeare's plays have been adapted or rewritten in various, often surprising, ways since the seventeenth century. This groundbreaking anthology brings together twelve theatrical adaptations of Shakespeares work from around the world and across the centuries. The plays include The Woman's Prize or the Tamer Tamed John Fletcher The History of King Lear Nahum Tate King Stephen: A Fragment of a Tragedy John Keats The Public (El P(blico) Federico Garcia Lorca The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui Bertolt Brecht uMabatha Welcome Msomi Measure for Measure Charles Marowitz Hamletmachine Heiner Müller Lears Daughters The Womens Theatre Group & Elaine Feinstein Desdemona: A Play About a Handkerchief Paula Vogel This Islands Mine Philip Osment Harlem Duet Djanet Sears Each play is introduced by a concise, informative introduction with suggestions for further reading. The collection is prefaced by a detailed General Introduction, which offers an invaluable examination of issues related to

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2016-04-04
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780393614756

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Macbeth (Second International Student Edition) (Norton Critical Editions) by William Shakespeare Pdf

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.

Author : Hennie Lochner,Peet van Staden
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2023-02-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000838336

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Transito: The Truth behind the Big-Money Robberies by Hennie Lochner,Peet van Staden Pdf

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.

Author : Tracey Derrick
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Healers
ISBN : STANFORD:36105112409292

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Becoming a Sangoma by Tracey Derrick Pdf

Author : Ruth Morgan,Saskia Wieringa
Publisher : Jacana Media
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 1770090932

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Tommy Boys, Lesbian Men, and Ancestral Wives by Ruth Morgan,Saskia Wieringa Pdf

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Author : Claire Laurier Decoteau
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2013-09-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780226064628

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Ancestors and Antiretrovirals by Claire Laurier Decoteau Pdf

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 : Ville Päivänsalo,Ayesha Ahmad,George Zachariah,Mari Stenlund
Publisher : Fortress Press
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2021-02-16
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781506465432

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Faith-Based Health Justice by Ville Päivänsalo,Ayesha Ahmad,George Zachariah,Mari Stenlund Pdf

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.

Author : P. J. Leigh
Publisher : Brave Girls Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2023-07-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Olawu by P. J. Leigh Pdf

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.

Author : Kent Maynard
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Cross-Cultural Comparison
ISBN : 1845451007

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Medical Identities by Kent Maynard Pdf

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.