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Author : John M. Janzen
Release : 1978
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Book Synopsis The quest for therapy in Lower Zaire by : John M. Janzen
Download or read book The quest for therapy in Lower Zaire written by John M. Janzen. This book was released on 1978. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John M. Janzen
Release : 1978
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 958/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Quest for Therapy in Lower Zaire by : John M. Janzen
Download or read book The Quest for Therapy in Lower Zaire written by John M. Janzen. This book was released on 1978. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Dr. John M. Janzen describes patterns of healing among the BaKongo of Lower Zaire in Africa, who, like many peoples elsewhere, utilize cosmopolitan medicine alongside traditional healing practices. What criteria, he asks, determine the choice of the alternative therapies? And what is their institutional interrelationship? In seeking answers, he analyzes case histories and cultural contexts to explore what social transactions, decisionmaking, illness and therapy classifications, and resource allocations are used in the choice of therapy by the ill, their kinfolk, friends, asociates, and specialized practitioners. From the Preface: This book presents an "on the ground" ethnographic account of how medical clients of one region of Lower Zaire diagnose illness, select therapies, and evaluate treatments, a process we call "therapy management." The book is intended to clarify a phenomenon of which central African clients have long been cognizant, namely, that medical systems are used in combination. Our study is aimed primarily at readers interested in the practical issues of medical decision-making in an African country, the cultural content of symptoms, and the dynamics of medical pluralism, that is, the existence in a single society of differently designed and conceived medical systems.
Author : John M. Janzen
Release : 1978
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Book Rating : 958/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Quest for Therapy by : John M. Janzen
Download or read book The Quest for Therapy written by John M. Janzen. This book was released on 1978. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Phyllis M. Martin
Release : 2009-02-06
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Catholic Women of Congo-Brazzaville by : Phyllis M. Martin
Download or read book Catholic Women of Congo-Brazzaville written by Phyllis M. Martin. This book was released on 2009-02-06. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Catholic Women of Congo-Brazzaville explores the changing relationship between women and the Catholic Church from the establishment of the first mission stations in the late 1880s to the present. Phyllis M. Martin emphasizes the social identity of mothers and the practice of motherhood, a prime concern of Congolese women, as they individually and collectively made sense of their place within the Church. Martin traces women's early resistance to missionary overtures and church schools, and follows their relationship with missionary Sisters, their later embrace of church-sponsored education, their participation in popular Catholicism, and the formation of women's fraternities. As they drew together as mothers and sisters, Martin asserts, women began to affirm their place in a male-dominated institution. Covering more than a century of often turbulent times, this rich and readable book examines an era of far-reaching social change in Central Africa.
Author : Yolanda Covington-Ward
Release : 2015-11-19
Genre : Social Science
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Book Synopsis Gesture and Power by : Yolanda Covington-Ward
Download or read book Gesture and Power written by Yolanda Covington-Ward. This book was released on 2015-11-19. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Gesture and Power Yolanda Covington-Ward examines the everyday embodied practices and performances of the BisiKongo people of the Lower Congo to show how their gestures, dances, and spirituality are critical in mobilizing social and political action. Conceiving of the body as the center of analysis, a catalyst for social action, and as a conduit for the social construction of reality, Covington-Ward focuses on specific flash points in the last ninety years of Congo's troubled history, when embodied performance was used to stake political claims, foster dissent, and enforce power. In the 1920s Simon Kimbangu started a Christian prophetic movement based on spirit-induced trembling, which swept through the Lower Congo, subverting Belgian colonial authority. Following independence, dictator Mobutu Sese Seko required citizens to dance and sing nationalist songs daily as a means of maintaining political control. More recently, embodied performance has again stoked reform, as nationalist groups such as Bundu dia Kongo advocate for a return to precolonial religious practices and non-Western gestures such as traditional greetings. In exploring these embodied expressions of Congolese agency, Covington-Ward provides a framework for understanding how embodied practices transmit social values, identities, and cultural history throughout Africa and the diaspora.
