Immobility and Medicine by Unknown

Author:Unknown
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9789811549762
Publisher: Springer Singapore

4Malombo or ‘drum of standing up’ (ngoma yo ima) constitutes the second phase of ritual proceedings mediating ancestor possession, successive upon ‘tshele’.

5This section is based on life histories gathered during fieldwork in South Africa 2004–2006. Neither Stayt (1931) nor Blacking (1985) mention the phenomenon of ‘Tshikuani illness’ of migrants in their ethnographies of possession phenomena in the ‘Venda’ cultural context.

6As opposed to ‘pain in the stomach’ which indicates the state of being a victim of witchcraft attack, vhuloi. Shoulder and neck pain indicates problems in relations with the ancestors—most frequently spirit possession.

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