{"product_id":"working-with-spirit-experiencing-izangoma-healing-in-contemporary-south-africa-9781845454760","title":"Working with Spirit: Experiencing Izangoma","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \tIn the current model of health dispensation in South Africa there are two major paradigms, the spirit-inspired tradition of \u003ci\u003eizangoma sinyanga\u003c\/i\u003e and biomedicine. These operate at best in parallel, but more often than not are at odds with one another. This book, based on the author’s personal experience as a practitioner of traditional African medicine, considers the effects of the absence of spirit in biomedicine on collaborative relationships. Given the unprecedented challenge of the HIV\/AIDS epidemic in the country, the author suggests that more cooperation is vital. Taking a critical look at the role of anthropology in this endeavor, she proposes the development of a “language of spirit” by means of which the spirit-inspired aetiology of \u003ci\u003eizangoma sinyanga\u003c\/i\u003e may be made comprehensible to academic scientists and applicable to medical interventions. The author discusses white \u003ci\u003eizangoma\u003c\/i\u003e in the context of current debates on healing and hybridity and insists that there exists a powerful role for\u003ci\u003e izangoma \u003c\/i\u003ein the realm of societal healing. Above all, the book constitutes a start in what the author hopes will develop into an ongoing intellectual conversation between traditional African healing, academe, and biomedicine in South Africa.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \t\u003cbr\u003e \t \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \tList of Illustrations\u003cbr\u003e \tAcknowledgements\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \tGoing about it - Fields, sources and contributors\u003cbr\u003e \tStructuring the book\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 1. Conversations in anthropological theory and method\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \tActs of collaboration - \u003ci\u003eIzangoma\u003c\/i\u003e and HIV\/AIDS interventions in East and Southern Africa\u003cbr\u003e \tExperiential practice, reflexivity and a language for spirit\u003cbr\u003e \tMethodological issues and the notion of mimetic ethnography\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 2. On the Question of Ancestors\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \tConceiving ancestors\u003cbr\u003e \tThe sacred pragmatism of \u003ci\u003eIzangoma Sinyanga\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 3. Biomedicine and \u003ci\u003eIzangoma sinyanga\u003c\/i\u003e: Fundamental misunderstandings and avoidable mistakes\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \tMedical disjuncts in the time of AIDS\u003cbr\u003e \tProfessionalizing \u003ci\u003eIzangoma\u003c\/i\u003e – Government, HIV\/AIDS, and the ‘traditional’ in South African medicine\u003cbr\u003e \tIndigenous discovery, pharmaceutical profit\u003cbr\u003e \tFurther contestations and uncomfortable predicaments\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 4. On ‘Being Called’ (\u003ci\u003eUkubiswa\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \tSickness and diagnosis\u003cbr\u003e \tAnswering ‘the call’\u003cbr\u003e \tWays of seeing\u003cbr\u003e \tDreams and stuff\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 5. Graduation (\u003ci\u003eGoduswa\u003c\/i\u003e) and ancestral evidences\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 6. What got into you? Ancestral en-trancement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \tWhat got into you?\u003cbr\u003e \tNot always bad: the literature of trance\u003cbr\u003e \tHandling Spirit\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 7. \"Long-nosed \u003ci\u003eIzangoma\u003c\/i\u003e\" and relationship issues in the \u003ci\u003eIzangoma\u003c\/i\u003e community\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \tWorking with the white\u003cbr\u003e \tLong-nosed \u003ci\u003eIzangoma\u003c\/i\u003e?\u003cbr\u003e \tA place for the white?\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 8. Witchcraft and \u003ci\u003eIzangoma Sinyanga\u003c\/i\u003e in the time of AIDS\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \tVirtually modern, actually real\u003cbr\u003e \tUmbilical relationships and questions of motive\u003cbr\u003e \tTreating AIDS, treating witchcraft\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003ePostscript and Final thoughts\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \tGlossary of terms and acronyms\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \tReferences\u003cbr\u003e \tIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Berghahn Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51042976858455,"sku":"9781845454760","price":89.1,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/working-with-spirit-experiencing-izangoma-healing-in-contemporary-south-africa-9781845454760","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}