Healing the Exposed Being: The Ngoma healing tradition in South Africa General Anthropology the African elephant

the African elephant

and their ambitious plan of social transformation dominated the national agenda

Turkey and Reindeer

Journey to a tranquil New Forest stream

Healing the Exposed Being: The Ngoma healing tradition in South Africa General Anthropology the African elephantThis ethnography explores the Ngoma healing tradition as practiced in eastern Mpumalanga, South Africa. Bungoma is an active philosophical system and healing practice consisting of multiple strands, based on the notion that humans are intrinsically exposed to each other and that this is the cause of illness, but also the condition for the possibility of healing. This healing seeks to protect the exposed being from harm through augmenting the self.