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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. |