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Title: | The Traditional Healer in Tanzania |
Author: | Beck, Ann |
Year: | 1979 |
Periodical: | Issue |
Volume: | 9 |
Issue: | 3 |
Period: | Fall |
Pages: | 2-5 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Tanzania |
Subjects: | healers psychotherapy Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups) |
External link: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/1166255 |
Abstract: | Aspects of the traditional healer or mganga (Swahili) in Tanzania: Who has the traditional healer? What was his concept of disease? How did he emerge in colonial records? What role did he play under colonial government, and what has been his role since independence? Ref., notes. |