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..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
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.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Magical and mental therapy
- Shamans and psychotherapists
- Medical personnel
- Medical care
- Medical therapy
- Sorcery
- Theory of disease
- Morbidity
- Hospitals and clinics
- 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 TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- 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
- 1968-1972
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1968-1974
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Harare, Zimbabwe
- NotesAdditional 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)
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Shona (African people)