wyszukanych pozycji: 7
The Quest for Fruition Through Ngoma: The Political Aspects of Healing in Southern Africa
ISBN: 9780821413043 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. This study has arisen out of a fascination with the vibrant nature of African societies, their vitality, and particularly the way in which they seem to be able time and again to overcome tribulation and turmoil. In the southern African region, ngoma, an indigenous ritual of healing, dance, rhythm, and rhyme, is at the heart of the social effort of turning the tables for individuals and communities so that their well-being is restored. This volume investigates ngoma in its many culturally diverse manifestations. It seeks to explore how these manifestations are perceived, how they function in...
This study has arisen out of a fascination with the vibrant nature of African societies, their vitality, and particularly the way in which they seem t...
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120,62 zł |
Quest for Fruition Through Ngoma: The Political Aspects of Healing in Southern Africa
ISBN: 9780852552636 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. The indigenous African healing system of music, dance, possession and trance is perhaps best known through John Janzen's book Ngoma: Discourse of Healing in Central and Southern Africa. This collection engages with Janzen's analysis and examines ngoma in its culturally diverse manifestations. North America: Ohio U Press
The indigenous African healing system of music, dance, possession and trance is perhaps best known through John Janzen's book Ngoma: Discourse of Heal...
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104,88 zł |
Religion and AIDS Treatment in Africa: Saving Souls, Prolonging Lives
ISBN: 9781138547025 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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173,09 zł |
Markets of Well-being: Navigating Health and Healing in Africa
ISBN: 9789004201101 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 318 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Health and healing are distinctive domains as far as the pursuit of people's well-being is concerned. In Africa, both fields have increasingly become subject to monetization and commodification, in short, the market. Based on extensive fieldwork in nine African countries by scholars with diverse academic backgrounds, this volume offers different perspectives on the emerging markets and the way medical staff, patients, households and institutions navigate them in their quest for well-being. By presenting a detailed economic ethnography of this multifacetted process of navigating the market,...
Health and healing are distinctive domains as far as the pursuit of people's well-being is concerned. In Africa, both fields have increasingly become ...
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253,41 zł |
Religion and AIDS Treatment in Africa: Saving Souls, Prolonging Lives
ISBN: 9781409456698 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This book critically interrogates emerging interconnections between religion and biomedicine in Africa in the era of antiretroviral treatment for AIDS. Highlighting the complex relationships between religious ideologies, practices and organizations on the one hand, and biomedical treatment programmes and the scientific languages and public health institutions that sustain them on the other, this anthology charts largely uncovered terrain in the social science study of the Aids epidemic. Spanning different regions of Africa, the authors offer unique access to issues at the interface of...
This book critically interrogates emerging interconnections between religion and biomedicine in Africa in the era of antiretroviral treatment for AIDS...
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456,42 zł |
Mobile Africa: Changing Patterns of Movement in Africa and Beyond
ISBN: 9789004120723 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. This anthology deals with the complexity, variety and experience of all the forms of mobility we witness today in Sub-Saharan Africa. Three sets of issues are being discussed.
First, the concept of mobility itself is considered and how it is conceived of in distinction from sedentarity. Second, which forms of mobility can be distinguished, not only from the perspective of Western social sciences, but also from the perspective of people's own experiences, ideas, notions, etc? Social science in Africa has particularly focused on rural-urban migration, but it is clear that there are many... This anthology deals with the complexity, variety and experience of all the forms of mobility we witness today in Sub-Saharan Africa. Three sets of is...
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240,30 zł |
Strength beyond Structure: Social and Historical Trajectories of Agency in Africa
ISBN: 9789004156968 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 350 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Drawing on a wide range of historical and anthropological case studies from various parts of Africa, this anthology provides an understanding of the importance of agency in processes of social transformation, especially in the context of crisis and structural constraint.
Drawing on a wide range of historical and anthropological case studies from various parts of Africa, this anthology provides an understanding of the i...
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253,41 zł |