'Working with spirit': Experiencing Izingoma healing in contemporary South Africa

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dc.contributor.authorWreford, Jo
dc.date.accessioned2016-05-17T12:03:23Z
dc.date.available2016-05-17T12:03:23Z
dc.date.issued2008
dc.date.updated2016-05-17T12:00:08Z
dc.description.abstractIn the current model of health dispensation in South Africa there are two major paradigms, the spirit-inspired tradition of izangoma sinyanga and biomedicine. These operate at best in parallel, but more often than not are at odds with one another. This book, based on the author's personal experience as a practitioner of traditional African medicine, considers the effects of the absence of spirit in biomedicine on collaborative relationships. Given the unprecedented challenge of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in the country, the author suggests that more cooperation is vital. Taking a critical look at the role of anthropology in this endeavor, she proposes the development of a "language of spirit" by means of which the spirit-inspired aetiology of izangoma sinyanga may be made comprehensible to academic scientists and applicable to medical interventions. The author discusses white izangoma in the context of current debates on healing and hybridity and insists that there exists a powerful role for izangoma in the realm of societal healing. Above all, the book constitutes a start in what the author hopes will develop into an ongoing intellectual conversation between traditional African healing, academe, and biomedicine in South Africa. Jo Thobeka Wreford accepted a community architectural post in Zimbabwe in 1992, where she met the Xhosa healer with whom, in 2001, she graduated as a sangoma. She now divides her time between her healing practice and research in sangoma and HIV/AIDS at the University of Cape Town. In 2004 she was awarded a Research Scholarship with the AIDS and Society Research Unit (ASRU), Centre for Social Science Research (CSSR) at the University of Cape Town.en_ZA
dc.identifier.apacitationWreford, J. (2008). <i>'Working with spirit': Experiencing Izingoma healing in contemporary South Africa</i>. New York: Berghahn Books. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/19699en_ZA
dc.identifier.chicagocitationWreford, Jo. <i>'Working with spirit': Experiencing Izingoma healing in contemporary South Africa</i>. New York: Berghahn Books. 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/19699.en_ZA
dc.identifier.citationWreford, J. T. (2008). Working with spirit: Experiencing izangoma healing in contemporary South Africa. Berghahn Books.en_ZA
dc.identifier.isbn978-1-84545-476-0en_ZA
dc.identifier.ris TY - Book AU - Wreford, Jo AB - In the current model of health dispensation in South Africa there are two major paradigms, the spirit-inspired tradition of izangoma sinyanga and biomedicine. These operate at best in parallel, but more often than not are at odds with one another. This book, based on the author's personal experience as a practitioner of traditional African medicine, considers the effects of the absence of spirit in biomedicine on collaborative relationships. Given the unprecedented challenge of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in the country, the author suggests that more cooperation is vital. Taking a critical look at the role of anthropology in this endeavor, she proposes the development of a "language of spirit" by means of which the spirit-inspired aetiology of izangoma sinyanga may be made comprehensible to academic scientists and applicable to medical interventions. The author discusses white izangoma in the context of current debates on healing and hybridity and insists that there exists a powerful role for izangoma in the realm of societal healing. Above all, the book constitutes a start in what the author hopes will develop into an ongoing intellectual conversation between traditional African healing, academe, and biomedicine in South Africa. Jo Thobeka Wreford accepted a community architectural post in Zimbabwe in 1992, where she met the Xhosa healer with whom, in 2001, she graduated as a sangoma. She now divides her time between her healing practice and research in sangoma and HIV/AIDS at the University of Cape Town. In 2004 she was awarded a Research Scholarship with the AIDS and Society Research Unit (ASRU), Centre for Social Science Research (CSSR) at the University of Cape Town. CY - New York DA - 2008 DB - OpenUCT DP - University of Cape Town LK - https://open.uct.ac.za PB - University of Cape Town PP - New York PY - 2008 SM - 978-1-84545-476-0 T1 - 'Working with spirit': Experiencing Izingoma healing in contemporary South Africa TI - 'Working with spirit': Experiencing Izingoma healing in contemporary South Africa UR - http://hdl.handle.net/11427/19699 ER - en_ZA
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dc.identifier.vancouvercitationWreford J. 'Working with spirit': Experiencing Izingoma healing in contemporary South Africa. New York: Berghahn Books; 2008.http://hdl.handle.net/11427/19699en_ZA
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dc.publisherBerghahn Booksen_ZA
dc.publisher.departmentCentre for Social Science Research(CSSR)en_ZA
dc.publisher.facultyFaculty of Humanitiesen_ZA
dc.publisher.institutionUniversity of Cape Town
dc.publisher.locationNew Yorken_ZA
dc.title'Working with spirit': Experiencing Izingoma healing in contemporary South Africaen_ZA
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