Book

Traditional healers and the Shona patient

Mambo Press3 • Published In 1978 • Pages: xii, 139 , plates

By: Chavunduka, G. L., Gelfand, Michael, Roberts, R. S..

Abstract
This work deals with the relationships between the traditional healers and their patients. The subjects of the study consist of a group of patients living in the urban township of Salisbury, Rhodesia (now Harare, Zimbabwe). The author gathered complete case histories of illnesses and then interviewed the traditional healers whom the patients had consulted. The purpose of the study was to discover some of the important sociological determinants of behavior in illness, and to understand something of the traditional system of treatment to which many of these illnesses are referred.
Subjects
Magical and mental therapy
Shamans and psychotherapists
Medical personnel
Medical care
Medical therapy
Sorcery
Theory of disease
Morbidity
Hospitals and clinics
culture
Shona
HRAF PubDate
2014
Region
Africa
Sub Region
Southern Africa
Document Type
Book
Evaluation
Creator Type
Ethnologist
Document Rating
5: Excellent Primary Data
Analyst
John Beierle; 1991
Field Date
1968-1972
Coverage Date
1968-1974
Coverage Place
Harare, Zimbabwe
Notes
[by] Gordon L. Chavunduka, with a foreword from Professor M. Gelfand
Zambeziana Volume III: A new series on culture and society in Central Africa; General editor Professor R. S. Roberts
Includes bibliographical references (134-139)
LCSH
Shona (African people)