Robert Thornton: Healing the Exposed Being

Cover: 9781776140183 | Healing the Exposed Being | Robert Thornton | Taschenbuch | Englisch

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Beschreibung

This ethnography explores the Ngoma healing tradition as practiced in eastern Mpumalanga, South Africa. 'Bungoma' is an active philosophical system and healing practice consisting of multiple strands, based on the notion that humans are intrinsically exposed to each other and that this is the cause of illness, but also the condition for the possibility of healing. This healing seeks to protect the 'exposed being' from harm through augmenting the self. Unlike Western medicine, it does not seek to cure physical ailments but aims to prevent suffering by allowing patients to transform their personal narratives of Self. Like Western medicine, it is empirical and is presented as a 'local knowledge' that amounts to a practical anthropology of human conflict and the environment. The book seeks to bring this anthropology and its therapeutic applications into relation with global academic anthropology by explaining it through political, economic, interpretive, and environmental lenses

Zusammenfassung

Robert Thornton has conducted long-term ethnographic research in South Africa as an anthropologist at University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg since 1992, and in Tanzania and Uganda. He obtained his PhD from the University of Chicago, and previously taught at the University of Cape Town.

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2017
Fachbereich:	Allgemeines
Rubrik:	Sozialwissenschaften
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	Einband - flex.(Paperback)
ISBN-13:	9781776140183
ISBN-10:	1776140184
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Thornton, Robert
Hersteller:	Wits University Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Mare Nostrum Group B.V., Doelen 72, ?-4831 GR Breda, gpsr@mare-nostrum.co.uk
Abbildungen:	26 black and white illustrations
Maße:	18 x 152 x 229 mm
Von/Mit:	Robert Thornton
Erscheinungsdatum:	01.05.2017
Gewicht:	0,512 kg