Muthi, Medicine and Witchcraft: Regulating 'African Science' in Post-Apartheid South Africa?
| dc.contributor.author | Ashforth, Adam | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2016-05-22T14:28:18Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2016-05-22T14:28:18Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2005 | |
| dc.date.updated | 2016-05-22T14:26:34Z | |
| dc.description.abstract | This paper comprises extracts from Adam Ashworth's book: Witchcraft, Violence and Democracy in South Africa (Chicago University Press, 2005) . It argues that the distinction between witchcraft and healing is essentially a moral one (healers and witches use supernatural forces supposedly for different ends) and that both activities fall under the rubric of 'African science '. Whereas proponents of 'Indigenous Knowledge Systems ' attempt, as part of a broader cultural project, to provide 'traditional' African healing with scientific status, others - starting with Montana's 1988 call to 'stop romanticizing the evil depredations of the sangoma' in order to Fee patients from the 'tyranny of superstition ' - emphasise the incommensurability of traditional healing practices with science. The paper concludes with a discussion of how such incommensurability makes it very difficult, if not impossible,for the post-apartheid state to regulate 'African science '. | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.apacitation | Ashforth, A. (2005). Muthi, Medicine and Witchcraft: Regulating 'African Science' in Post-Apartheid South Africa?. <i>Social Dynamics</i>, http://hdl.handle.net/11427/19757 | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.chicagocitation | Ashforth, Adam "Muthi, Medicine and Witchcraft: Regulating 'African Science' in Post-Apartheid South Africa?." <i>Social Dynamics</i> (2005) http://hdl.handle.net/11427/19757 | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.citation | Ashforth, A. (2005). Muthi, medicine and witchcraft: regulating ‘African science’in post-apartheid South Africa?. Social Dynamics, 31(2), 211-242. | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.issn | 0253-3952 | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.ris | TY - Journal Article AU - Ashforth, Adam AB - This paper comprises extracts from Adam Ashworth's book: Witchcraft, Violence and Democracy in South Africa (Chicago University Press, 2005) . It argues that the distinction between witchcraft and healing is essentially a moral one (healers and witches use supernatural forces supposedly for different ends) and that both activities fall under the rubric of 'African science '. Whereas proponents of 'Indigenous Knowledge Systems ' attempt, as part of a broader cultural project, to provide 'traditional' African healing with scientific status, others - starting with Montana's 1988 call to 'stop romanticizing the evil depredations of the sangoma' in order to Fee patients from the 'tyranny of superstition ' - emphasise the incommensurability of traditional healing practices with science. The paper concludes with a discussion of how such incommensurability makes it very difficult, if not impossible,for the post-apartheid state to regulate 'African science '. DA - 2005 DB - OpenUCT DP - University of Cape Town J1 - Social Dynamics LK - https://open.uct.ac.za PB - University of Cape Town PY - 2005 SM - 0253-3952 T1 - Muthi, Medicine and Witchcraft: Regulating 'African Science' in Post-Apartheid South Africa? TI - Muthi, Medicine and Witchcraft: Regulating 'African Science' in Post-Apartheid South Africa? UR - http://hdl.handle.net/11427/19757 ER - | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11427/19757 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02533950508628714 | |
| dc.identifier.vancouvercitation | Ashforth A. Muthi, Medicine and Witchcraft: Regulating 'African Science' in Post-Apartheid South Africa?. Social Dynamics. 2005; http://hdl.handle.net/11427/19757. | en_ZA |
| dc.language | eng | en_ZA |
| dc.publisher | Taylor & Francis | en_ZA |
| dc.publisher.department | Centre for Social Science Research(CSSR) | en_ZA |
| dc.publisher.faculty | Faculty of Humanities | en_ZA |
| dc.publisher.institution | University of Cape Town | |
| dc.source | Social Dynamics | en_ZA |
| dc.source.uri | http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rsdy20/current | |
| dc.subject.other | Muthi | |
| dc.subject.other | Medicine | |
| dc.subject.other | Witchcraft | |
| dc.subject.other | African Science | |
| dc.title | Muthi, Medicine and Witchcraft: Regulating 'African Science' in Post-Apartheid South Africa? | en_ZA |
| dc.type | Journal Article | en_ZA |
| uct.type.filetype | Text | |
| uct.type.filetype | Image | |
| uct.type.publication | Research | en_ZA |
| uct.type.resource | Article | en_ZA |