From where does the bad wind blow? Spiritual healing and witchcraft in Lusaka

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

From where does the bad wind blow? Spiritual healing and witchcraft in Lusaka

Original language description

The book deals with the phenomenon of spiritual healing and witchcraft within the field of indigenous medicine and African Independent Churches in the contemporary urban setting of Lusaka, the capital of Zambia. Grounded in theoretical concepts of medical and symbolical anthropology, the study analyses the syncretic character of medical culture and the so-called ''therapy shopping'' phenomenon. Special attention is paid to the local conceptualization of health, illness and body, cultural aetiology, the social and cultural representation of spirit possession and witchcraft, description of different types of healers and their diagnostic and therapeutic praxis. Another part is dedicated to the symbolical interpretation of witchcraft on the level of theory, system and practice based on different case studies

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

B - Specialist book

CEP classification

AC - Archaeology, anthropology, ethnology

OECD FORD branch

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Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2015

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

ISBN

978-3-643-90273-3

Number of pages

315

Publisher name

Lit Verlag

Place of publication

Berlin

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