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/

 
Notes

5 How Ngoma Works Of Codes and Consciousness

1. The term bugaboo , or boogaboo , has a Central African origin drawn directly from the Western Bantu religion and healing vocabulary. Vass (1979:106) traces it to buka lubuka , to divine, or consult a diviner.

2. In semiotic parlance, appropriately called "shifters."

Notes
 

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/