Illness, therapy, and change in Ethiopian possession cults
Paying special attention to the Sidamo of southern Ethiopia, the author seeks to understand the ethnomedical dimensions of health maintenance and the sociocultural determinants of illness behaviour in the present pluralistic medical context. He describes the changing socio-religious situation in Sid...
| Published in: | Africa |
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| Format: | Print Article |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge Univ. Press
1993
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Africa
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| Further subjects: | B
Socio-cultural change
B Disease B People B Cult B Traditional medicine B Tree trunk Ethnology B Sidamo B Ethiopia |
| Summary: | Paying special attention to the Sidamo of southern Ethiopia, the author seeks to understand the ethnomedical dimensions of health maintenance and the sociocultural determinants of illness behaviour in the present pluralistic medical context. He describes the changing socio-religious situation in Sidamoland and explores patterns of continuity and change in possession rituals among the Sidamo. (DÜI-Sen) |
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| ISSN: | 0001-9720 |
| Contains: | In: Africa
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