Ngoma
  Preface

  Introduction
 expand section1  Settings and Samples in African Cults of Affliction
 collapse section2  Identifying Ngoma  Historical and Comparative Perspectives
 •The Bantu Conundrum
 •The Lexicon Of a Classical Sub-Saharan Therapeutics
 •Instruments Of Ritual Healing As A Nonverbal Cognate Set
 expand sectionSocial And Political Variables Of A Complex Institution
 expand sectionScholarly Blinders And The Ontology Of A Unique Institution
 expand section3  Core Features in Ngoma Therapy
 expand section4  Doing Ngoma  The Texture of Personal Transformation
 expand section5  How Ngoma Works  Of Codes and Consciousness
 expand section6  How Ngoma Works  The Social Reproduction of Health
  Conclusion

  Appendix A  Partial Listing of Guthrie's Inventory of Bantu Languages
  Appendix B  Distributions of Terms in Bantu Languages Pertaining to Therapeutic Concepts and Actions
 expand sectionAppendix C  Instrumentation Accompanying Healing Rituals in Central and Southern Africa
 expand sectionNotes
  Bibliography
 expand sectionIndex
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