
Dancing Prophets (English, Steven M. Friedson)
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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 past events and their consequences for patients. Music is the structural nexus where healer, patient, and…
ISBN: 9780226265025
Book Specifications
| ISBN-13 | 9780226265025 |
| ISBN-10 | 0226265021 |
| Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
| Category | University of Chicago Press |
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