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Arbres et arbustes guérisseurs des savanes maliennes
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ISBN: 2865373770 9782865373772 Year: 1992 Publisher: Paris : Agence de Coopération Culturelle et Technique (A.C.C.T.); Editions Karthala,

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SIDA, l'amour face à la peur : modes d'adaptation au risque du SIDA dans les relations hétérosexuelles.
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ISSN: 09938591 ISBN: 2738417175 9782738417176 Year: 1992 Publisher: Paris L'Harmattan

Complementary medicine today : practitioners and patients.
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ISBN: 0415047943 0415047935 Year: 1992 Publisher: London Tavistock


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Santé et rédemption par les génies au Congo : la " médecine traditionnelle " selon le mvulusi
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ISBN: 2866004329 9782866004323 Year: 1992 Publisher: Paris : Publisud,

The social basis of health and healing in Africa.
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ISBN: 0520066812 0520066804 9780520066809 9780520066816 Year: 1992 Publisher: Berkeley University of California press

New directions in psychological anthropology
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ISBN: 052142609X 0521415926 051162185X 9780521426091 Year: 1992 Volume: 3 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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The field of psychological anthropology has changed a great deal since the 1940s and 1950s, when it was often known as 'Culture and Personality Studies'. Rooted in psychoanalytic psychology, its early practitioners sought to extend that psychology through the study of cross-cultural variation in personality and child-rearing practices. Psychological anthropology has since developed in a number of new directions. Tensions between individual experience and collective meanings remain as central to the field as they were fifty years ago, but, alongside fresh versions of the psychoanalytic approach, other approaches to the study of cognition, emotion, the body, and the very nature of subjectivity have been introduced. And in the place of an earlier tendency to treat a 'culture' as an undifferentiated whole, psychological anthropology now recognizes the complex internal structure of cultures. The contributors to this state-of-the-art collection are all leading figures in contemporary psychological anthropology, and they write abour recent developments in the field. Sections of the book discuss cognition, developmental psychology, biology, psychiatry, and psychoanalysis, areas that have always been integral to psychological anthropology but which are now being transformed by new perspectives on the body, meaning, agency and communicative practice.

Anthropological approaches to the study of ethnomedicine
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ISBN: 2881245293 2881245307 Year: 1992 Publisher: Montreux, Switzerland : Gordon and Breach Science Publishers,

Ngoma : discourses of healing in Central and Southern Africa
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ISBN: 0520072650 9786612356407 0520910850 1282356402 0585129320 9780520910850 9780585129327 9781282356405 9780520072657 Year: 1992 Publisher: Berkeley, CA : University of California Press,

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Ngoma, in Bantu, means drum, song, performance, and healing cult or association. A widespread form of ritual healing in Central and Southern Africa, ngoma is fully investigated here for the first time and interpreted in a contemporary context. John Janzen's daring study incorporates drumming and spirit possession into a broader, institutional profile that emphasizes the varieties of knowledge and social forms and also the common elements of "doing ngoma. "Drawing on his recent field research in Kinshasa, Dar-es-Salaam, Mbabane, and Capetown, Janzen reveals how ngoma transcends national and social boundaries. Spoken and sung discourses about affliction, extended counseling, reorientation of the self or household, and the creation of networks that link the afflicted, their kin, and their healers are all central to ngoma-and familiar to Western self-help institutions as well. Students of African healing and also those interested in the comparative and historical study of medicine, religion, and music will find Ngoma a valuable and thought-provoking book.

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Medicine, Traditional --- Mental Healing --- Healing --- Rites and ceremonies --- Rites et cérémonies --- Africa, Central --- Africa, Southern --- Healing - Africa, Southern. --- Traditional medicine-- Africa, Southern. --- Traditional medicine --- Ceremonial Behavior --- Mind-Body Therapies --- Complementary Therapies --- Social Behavior --- Spiritual Therapies --- Culture --- Behavior --- Therapeutics --- Anthropology, Cultural --- Analytical, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Techniques and Equipment --- Anthropology --- Behavior and Behavior Mechanisms --- Psychiatry and Psychology --- Social Sciences --- Anthropology, Education, Sociology and Social Phenomena --- Folklore --- #SBIB:39A9 --- #SBIB:39A73 --- -Healing --- -Rites and ceremonies --- -Traditional medicine --- -Ethnic medicine --- Ethnomedicine --- Folk medicine --- Home cures --- Home medicine --- Home remedies --- Indigenous medicine --- Medical folklore --- Medicine, Primitive --- Primitive medicine --- Surgery, Primitive --- Alternative medicine --- Medical anthropology --- Ethnopharmacology --- Ceremonies --- Cult --- Cultus --- Ecclesiastical rites and ceremonies --- Religious ceremonies --- Religious rites --- Rites of passage --- Traditions --- Ritualism --- Manners and customs --- Mysteries, Religious --- Ritual --- Curing (Medicine) --- Medische antropologie / gezondheid / handicaps --- Etnografie: Afrika --- Africa, Central. --- Africa, Southern. --- -Medische antropologie / gezondheid / handicaps --- Rites et cérémonies --- Ethnic medicine --- Mental Healing. --- africa. --- african studies. --- anthropology. --- bantu. --- bone throwing. --- capetown. --- central africa. --- dance. --- dar es salaam. --- disease. --- divination. --- drum. --- ethnography. --- folk belief. --- folk medicine. --- folklore. --- healers. --- healing cults. --- healing. --- illness. --- kinshasa. --- kinship. --- mbabane. --- medicine. --- music. --- ngoma. --- nonfiction. --- performance. --- performing arts. --- possession. --- religion. --- rite. --- ritual healing. --- social science. --- sociology. --- song. --- south africa. --- southern africa. --- spirits. --- tradition.

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