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For the Tumbuka people of Malawi, traditional medical practices are filled with music. This ethnography explores a health care system populated by dancing prophets, singing patients and drummed spirits.

Dancing Prophets Musical Experience in Tumbuka

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    A Paperback / softback by Steven M. Friedson

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      Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
      Publication Date: 01/09/1996
      ISBN13: 9780226265025, 978-0226265025
      ISBN10: 0226265021
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      Book Synopsis
      For the Tumbuka people of Malawi, traditional medical practices are filled with music. This ethnography explores a health care system populated by dancing prophets, singing patients and drummed spirits.

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