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Dancing Prophets : Musical Experience in Tumbuka Healing (Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology)
Dancing Prophets Musical Experience in Tumbuka Healing - Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology
Author: Steven M. Friedson
For the Tumbuka people of Malawi, traditional medical practices are saturated with music. In this groundbreaking ethnography, Steven M. Friedson explores a health care system populated by dancing prophets, singing patients, and drummed spirits. — Tumbuka healers diagnose diseases by enacting divination trances in which they "see" the causes of pa...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780226265018
ISBN-10: 0226265013
Publication Date: 8/1/1996
Pages: 260
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Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Book Type: Hardcover
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