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The Practices of Apostolic Faith Healers in Mental Health Care in Zimbabwe
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: James January --- University of Zimbabwe, Tholene Sodi --- University of Venda,This study aimed to understand and interpret faith healers' explanations of the aetiology and treatment of diseases and to canvass their views regarding collaboration between Western trained health care professionals and faith healers. Fifteen female and six male faith healers... -
The young, the rich, and the beautiful: Secrecy, suspicion and discourses of AIDS in the South African lowveld
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Jonathan James Stadler --- Reproductive Health Research Unit and Department of Anthropology, South AfricaThis article investigates emic accounts of the AIDS deaths that have occurred in a village in the Bushbuckridge district of the South African lowveld. I argue that whilst AIDS was publicly hidden and shrouded in secrecy, private gossip created moral... -
A voice in control?: narratives of accused witches in Chhattisgarh, India
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Helen M. Macdonald --- Dept. Social Anthropology, South AfricaOne characteristic of violence is the unmaking of language and fracturing of the victim's social world. In recent theorising, narrative is posited to play an important role in restoring the victim to his/her status as a social person. Fiona Ross... -
Racist accusations in contemporary South Africa: lessons from studies of witchcraft
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: E.A. Boonzaier --- Department of Anthropology and Sociology,By international consensus, racism features as one of the major evils of our time. Unsurprisingly, therefore, no one wants to be branded a racist. There currently seems to be an epidemic of accusations of racism in South Africa, not altogether... -
Beliefs and the Spiritual World: Socio-cultural and Material Conditions of Tanzania’s Occult Fiction
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies • Authors: Eliah S. Mwaifuge --- Department of Literature,This paper examines how traditional beliefs and spirituality inform and are represented in A. M Hokororo's Salma's Spirit (1997), A. S. Mmasi's Satanic Tortures (1998) and I. Yohana's Tears from a Lonely Heart (2013). The paper proceeds from the assumption... -
Conducting anthropological fieldwork in northern Ghana: emerging ethical dilemmas
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Saibu Mutaru --- Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology, South AfricaThis paper discusses two ethical dilemmas that I encountered when doing fieldwork on so-called witch camps in northern Ghana, places of protection under the auspices of an earth priest or chief for women who have been accused of witchcraft and... -
Blaming the father: witchcraft, de-industrialisation and generation in South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Isak Niehaus --- , United KingdomSocial researchers associate paradoxical developments in post-apartheid South Africa — such as increased hardship at a time of heightened expectations — with a proliferation in witchcraft accusations. This article examines this postulate in greater depth, drawing upon multi-temporal ethnographic fieldwork...