Book
Traditional healers and the Shona patient
Mambo Press • 3 • 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.
- 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)