"This Is My Profession"-Changes in African Ritual Consciousness over Thirty-One Years

SUMMARY In this article, I point out significant changes in the field of Ndembu ritual after a gap of 31 years, 1954 until 1985—when I returned to Zambia. I depict rituals for spirit affliction, first in 1954, and later in 1985. In the 1954 era, many other adepts used to join with the main patient i...

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Published in:Anthropology and humanism 2011-06, Vol.36 (1), p.7-17
Main Author: TURNER, EDITH
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Africa
Anthropology
Culture
distancing effect
Empathy
Field study
healer
Human race
longitudinal studies
Medicine
Race
Rites & ceremonies
Ritual
Rituals
three eras
Tradition
Traditional medicine
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