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Christianity --- Spirit possession. --- Christianity and other religions --- Christianisme --- Possession par les esprits --- History. --- African. --- Histoire --- Relations --- Religion africaine --- Livingstonia Mission --- Malawi --- Religion. --- Religion --- Spirit possession --- Tumbuka (African people) --- Batumbuka (African people) --- Nyasa (African people) --- Siska (African people) --- Sisya (African people) --- Tambuka (African people) --- Timbuka (African people) --- Tombucas (African people) --- Tonga (Malawi people) --- Tumbuka (African tribe) --- Watumbuka (African people) --- Bantu-speaking peoples --- Ethnology --- Possession, Spirit --- Experience (Religion) --- African --- Church history --- Religious life --- United Free Church of Scotland. --- Free Church of Scotland. --- Nyasa (Malawian people)
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Reading these tales from Northern Malawi readers come close to watching an original performance and the tales and the songs encapsulate the essence of Malawian culture. The authors presentation, using performance directions, allows the reader to see and hear old Nyaviyuyi as she, through word, voice, tone and gesture, mocks nosy wives, and celebrates the devotion of friendship and parental love. The author has made a further contribution to the topic by including musical notations for the songs.
Tumbuka language --- Tales --- Folklore --- Tumbuka (African people) --- Batumbuka (African people) --- Nyasa (African people) --- Siska (African people) --- Sisya (African people) --- Tambuka (African people) --- Timbuka (African people) --- Tombucas (African people) --- Tonga (Malawi people) --- Tumbuka (African tribe) --- Watumbuka (African people) --- Bantu-speaking peoples --- Ethnology --- Folk beliefs --- Folk-lore --- Traditions --- Manners and customs --- Material culture --- Mythology --- Oral tradition --- Storytelling --- Chitumbuka language --- Tamboka language --- Tumboka language --- Bantu languages --- Tonga language (Nyasa) --- Folk tales --- Folktales --- Folk literature --- Performance --- Nyasa (Malawian people)
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Stephen Kauta Msiska was ordained to the ministry in 1945 and served the Livingstonia Synod in a number of lakeshore parishes before being appointed first a tutor and later Principal of the united CCAP Theological College at Nkhoma where he taught from 1962 to 1974. His firm stand for what he understood to be the principles of the Christian Gospel led to a clash with the one-party regime and he was forced to flee to his home village and to live there in relative obscurity. This book makes accessible some of the fruits not only of his years of active pastoral ministry and theological teaching but also of his time of lonely suffering and sorrow. Distinctive in the writing of this pioneering theologian is a profound, though not uncritical, sympathy with the traditional religion of his people combined with a passionate concern for authentic Christian discipleship. Careful readers of this original and thoughtful book will find the "golden buttons" which Stephen Kauta is determined should not be lost.
Christianity --- Tumbuka (African people) --- Batumbuka (African people) --- Nyasa (African people) --- Siska (African people) --- Sisya (African people) --- Tambuka (African people) --- Timbuka (African people) --- Tombucas (African people) --- Tonga (Malawi people) --- Tumbuka (African tribe) --- Watumbuka (African people) --- Bantu-speaking peoples --- Ethnology --- Religions --- Church history --- Religion. --- Malawi --- Dziko la Malaŵi --- GOM (Malawi) --- Ma-la-wei --- Malaui --- Malavi --- Maraui --- Republic of Malaŵi --- República de Malawi --- Republik Malawi --- Малави --- マラウイ --- Nyasaland --- Nyasa (Malawian people)
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For the Tumbuka people of Malawi, traditional medical practices are saturated with music. In this groundbreaking ethnography, Steven M. Friedson explores a health care system populated by dancing prophets, singing patients, and drummed spirits. Tumbuka healers diagnose diseases by enacting divination trances in which they "see" the causes of past events and their consequences for patients. Music is the structural nexus where healer, patient, and spirit meet--it is the energizing heat that fuels the trance, transforming both the bodily and social functioning of the individual. Friedson shows how the sound of the ng'oma drum, the clapping of the choir, call-and-response singing, and the jangle of tin belts and iron anklets do not simply accompany other more important ritual activities--they are the very substance of a sacred clinical reality. This novel look at the relation between music and mental and biological health will interest medical anthropologists, Africanists, and religious scholars as well as ethnomusicologists.
Music and dance --- Musique et danse --- Muziek en dans --- Tumbuka (African people) --- Healing --- Music therapy --- Ethnology --- Music and dance. --- Anthropologie sociale et culturelle --- Music --- Rites and ceremonies. --- #SBIB:39A9 --- #SBIB:39A5 --- #SBIB:39A73 --- Medische antropologie / gezondheid / handicaps --- Kunst, habitat, materiële cultuur en ontspanning --- Etnografie: Afrika --- History and criticism. --- Rites and ceremonies --- Malawi --- Batumbuka (African people) --- Nyasa (African people) --- Siska (African people) --- Sisya (African people) --- Tambuka (African people) --- Timbuka (African people) --- Tombucas (African people) --- Tonga (Malawi people) --- Tumbuka (African tribe) --- Watumbuka (African people) --- Musical therapy --- Musicotherapy --- Dance and music --- Curing (Medicine) --- Music&delete& --- History and criticism --- Therapeutic use --- Bantu-speaking peoples --- Therapeutics --- Psychotherapy and music --- Dance --- Music. --- Nyasa (Malawian people)
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The purpose of this book is to show that the possession cult of Vimbuza presents itself as an oral genre which is part and parcel of African Oral Literature. The ethno-linguistic study which we undertake will permit us to catch a glimpse of its whole complexity. The analysis has a bearing on four principal aspects. Historical developments: a certain number of facts concerning the birth of possession among the Tumbuka; possession: the study attempts to show how the cult articulates itself with its beliefs and the use of divination; the social role: analysis of social functions; the style: an analysis of the linguistic procedures which are characteristic of Vimbuza songs. The presence of rhetorical figures would confirm that we are talking about an oral literary genre.
Healing --- Traditional medicine --- Cults --- Spirit possession --- Curing (Medicine) --- Therapeutics --- Possession, Spirit --- Experience (Religion) --- Ethnic medicine --- Ethnomedicine --- Folk medicine --- Home cures --- Home medicine --- Home remedies --- Indigenous medicine --- Medical folklore --- Medicine, Primitive --- Primitive medicine --- Surgery, Primitive --- Alternative medicine --- Folklore --- Medical anthropology --- Ethnopharmacology --- Ethnology --- Tumbuka (African people) --- Social life and customs. --- Batumbuka (African people) --- Nyasa (African people) --- Siska (African people) --- Sisya (African people) --- Tambuka (African people) --- Timbuka (African people) --- Tombucas (African people) --- Tonga (Malawi people) --- Tumbuka (African tribe) --- Watumbuka (African people) --- Bantu-speaking peoples --- Nyasa (Malawian people)
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