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Title:The mganga: a specialist of his own kind
Author:Omari, C.K.
Year:1972
Periodical:Psychopathologie africaine
Volume:8
Issue:2
Pages:217-231
Language:English
Geographic term:Tanzania
Subjects:healers
psychotherapy
Abstract:Aim is to look at the traditional healing system in an African society, Tanzania: the man whose duty is to heal and his relationship to the development of society. There are three main sectors: the many facets of the 'traditional doctor' whom the author calls mganga in this paper; his profession and finally, the quest for the national association of the traditional doctors in Tanzania and the problems such an association is facing. Notes, summary p. 162, French summary p. 166.
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