Dancing Prophets: Musical Experience in Tumbuka Healing
- Author: Friedson, Steven M.
Book
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Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Preface
- Acknowledgments Note on Orthography
- Introduction Ethnography as Possibility 1: To Dance and To Dream 2: God, Humans, and Spirits 3: Blood and Spirit: The Chilopa Sacrifice 4: The Musical Construction of Clinical Reality 5: In the Vimbuza Mode 6:
- Conclusion An Ontology of Energy Epilogue
- Appendix A:
- Glossary of Vimbuza Spirits
- Appendix B: Vimbuza Rhythmic Mottos
- Appendix C: Vimbuza Song Texts Notes
- Bibliography
- Index