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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.

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.