Book
Medicine and magic of the Mashona
Juta and Co. • Cape Town • Published In 1956 • Pages:
By: Gelfand, Michael, Tredgold, Robert C. (Robert Clarkson).
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is an excellent survey of religious and medical practices as observed by the author while serving as a physician at the Salisbury Native Hospital in Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe). There are two parts to this work. The first part deals with Shona ideas about the causes of disease and the second part is concerned with the native medicine man and the diagnosis and cure of diseases through magical or medical means. This source also includes information on medical treatment of pregnancy and on death.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Eschatology
- Magical and mental therapy
- Shamans and psychotherapists
- Medical therapy
- Magicians and diviners
- Magic
- Preventive medicine
- Paraphernalia
- Sorcery
- Revelation and divination
- Burial practices and funerals
- Mourning
- Cult of the dead
- Pregnancy
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Shona
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2014
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Africa
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Southern Africa
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator TypesThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Physician
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- John Beierle; 1991
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1940-1955
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1940-1955
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- northern Zimbabwe
- NotesAdditional notes
- [by] Michael Gelfand ; with a foreword by Sir Robert Tredgold
- Includes bibliographical references, glossary and index
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 57042226
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Shona (African people)
- Medicine, Magic, mystic, and spagiric