Preferred Citation: Janzen, John M. Ngoma: Discourses of Healing in Central and Southern Africa. Berkeley:  University of California Press,  c1992 1992. http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft3779n8vf/

 

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Illness, accepting, as first stage of therapy, 51

Impotence, 19 , 31

Infectious disease, 166

Infertility, 12 , 13 ;

widespread zone of, 162 -165

Institution, 7 , 78 , 80 -83, 173 -179;

variations, 4 ;

defined, 80 ;

synthetic model of African therapeutic, its risks and benefits, 86

Islam, and ngoma, 30 -32

Isolation, 19

Isoma, rite of affliction, Ndembu, 103 , 162

 

Preferred Citation: Janzen, John M. Ngoma: Discourses of Healing in Central and Southern Africa. Berkeley:  University of California Press,  c1992 1992. http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft3779n8vf/