essay
'Medicines' and the sexual transmission of disease among the Suku of Zaire: (with some relevence to AIDS)
body and space: symbolic models of unity and division in african cosmology and experience • Stockholm • Published In 1991 • Pages: 303-314
By: Kopytoff, Igor.
Abstract
This article discusses the cultural meanings and medicinal functions of traditional Suku religious objects called "lineage medicines." These are associated with lineages because, unlike other types of Suku medicine, they are held not by individuals but by the matrilineage. An important function of such medicines is ensuring the corporate wellbeing of matrilineages by controlling the transmission of disease and misfortune due to sexual relations.
- HRAF PubDate
- 2016
- Region
- Africa
- Sub Region
- Central Africa
- Document Type
- essay
- Evaluation
- Creator Type
- Anthropologist
- Document Rating
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- Analyst
- Teferi Abate Adem ; 2014
- Field Date
- 1958-1959
- Coverage Date
- 1920-1959
- Coverage Place
- Kwango district, Bandundu, Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Notes
- Igor Kopytoff
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 314)
- LCCN
- 92168732
- LCSH
- Suku (African people)