John M Janzen
Biographic Data
| ID | 3585939 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John M Janzen |
| GIVEN NAMES | John M |
| FAMILY NAME | Janzen |
| SIGNATURE | JANZEN J M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Kansas |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 57 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 255 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 56 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1968 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Burnet, Jennie E
The Kongo Tradition of Renewal
Ngoma
Ngoma , in Bantu, means drum, song, performance, and healing cult or association. A widespread form of ritual healing in Central and Southern Africa, ngoma is fully investigated here for the first time and interpreted in a contemporary context. John Janzen's daring study incorporates drumming and spirit possession into a broader, institutional profile that emphasizes the varieties of knowledge and social forms and also the common elements of "doi…
African Religion and Healing in the Atlantic Diaspora
Religion and healing are useful scholarly constructs in summarizing, consolidating, and interpreting a myriad of details from the historic African-Atlantic experience. For heuristic purposes, religion is understood as the worldviews, rituals, and supernatural beings that represent ultimate reality; healing is the understanding of, and responses to, affliction and misfortune, and the struggle to achieve wholeness. Combining religion and healing in…
Wreford, Jo Thobeka
Anthropos , Seite 313 - 314
Debility and the Moral Imagination in Botswana by Julie Livingston
Le roi de Kongo et les monsters sacres
When Victims Become Killers
Kongo Political Culture
Mind/body, subject/object
Anderson, Robert. Magic, Science, and Health: The Aims and Achievements of Medical Anthropology. Fort Worth, TX: Harcourt Brace, 1996. x + 454 pp. including index. $34.74 paper. Hahn, Robert A. Sickness and Healing: An Anthropological Perspective. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1995. viii + 327 pp. including references and index. $30.00 cloth. Kleinman, Arthur. Writing at the Margin: Discourse between Anthropology and Medicine. Berkeley: U…
People are Not the Same; Leprosy and Identity in 20th-century Mali
People Are Not the Same; Leprosy and Identity in 20th-century Mali. Eric Silla. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 1998. vi. 220 pp., photographs, maps, sources, index
Historical consciousness and a 'prise de conscience' in genocidal Rwanda
This paper utilizes Professor Terence Ranger's approach to the study of consciousness to explore an instance of resistance to genocide in Rwanda in 1994, in which a communal mayor and his staff experienced a 'prise de conscience,' an awakening about the genocidal conspiracy that was occurring, and acted decisively to neutralize the forces that elsewhere led to the decimation of most 'Tutsi' and opponents of the ruling regime. Professor Ranger's l…
Healing Makes Our Hearts Happy
Healing Makes Our Hearts Happy: Spirituality and Cultural Transformation among the Kalahari Ju/'hoansi. Richard Katz. Megan Biesele. and Verna St. Denis. Rochester, VT: Inner Traditions International, 1997 214 pp
Ayiwewe
(1999). “Ayiwewe”: War-Traumatized Children Draw Their Memories. Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue canadienne des études africaines: Vol. 33, French-Speaking Central Africa: Political Dynamics of Identities and Representations / Afrique centrale francophone : dynamiques politiques des identités et des représentations, pp. 593-609
Aids and STDs In Africa
AIDS and STDs In Africa: Bridging the Gap between Traditional Healing and Modem Medicine. EDWARD C. GREEN. Boulder, CO and Oxford: Westvlew Press, 1994. xi + 276 pp. photographs, tables, bibliography, Index
The Amish and the State
Self-Presentation and Common Cultural Structures in Ngoma Rituals of Southern Africa
L'A. s'interesse aux lieux d'Afrique du Sud ou se pratique la divination (ngoma). Il tente de comprendre le mode unitaire de fonctionnement du ngoma en Afrique du Sud en termes de conscience: comme une realisation de l'oppression et une volonte de lutter contre elle, comme un ensemble de mots qui represente une approche particuliere de la perception, de l'interpretation et de l'action a l'egard du malheur. Enfin, il l'aborde sous l'angle des reci…
Weaving the Threads of Life
Social Basis of Health and Healing in Africa
Until now our knowledge of African health and healing has been extensive but fragmented. Here in eighteen essays is the first comprehensive account of disease, health,and healing practices in the African continent. The contributors all emphasize the social conditions linked to ill health and the development of local healing traditions, from Morocco to South Africa and from the precolonial era to the present. Several chapters illustrate how the mo…
Ngoma
Disease and Demography in the Americas
The Social Basis of Health and Healing in Africa
Catastrophe and Creation
Ngoma
The Social basis of health and healing in Africa
The Quest for Therapy in Lower Zaire
Therapy Management
Therapy management" (diagnosis, selection, and evaluation of treatment, as well as support of the sufferer) and "therapy management group" (the set of individuals who take charge of therapy management with or on behalf of the sufferer) are two concepts developed in medical anthropological research in Central Africa and reported in The Quest for Therapy in Lower Zaire (Janzen 1978). The concepts are described in terms of their historical developme…
A Methodology for Cross-cultural Ethnomedical Research [and Comments and Reply]
Lemba, 1650-1930
Laman's Kongo Ethnography
Opening ParagraphValuable African archival materials are known to have been 'rediscovered' accidentally after having been 'lost' to scholarship for a time. Perhaps the foremost example of this in Lower Congo research is the eighteenth-century bibliography located by Jadin in the Vatican Library some time ago. A similar case which I shall discuss here is that of the KiKongo sources of Karl Laman's four volume ethnography The Kongo, a 775-page work…
The need for a taxonomy of health in the study of African therapeutics
Self-Presentation and Common Cultural Structures in Ngoma Rituals of Southern Africa
L'A. s'interesse aux lieux d'Afrique du Sud ou se pratique la divination (ngoma). Il tente de comprendre le mode unitaire de fonctionnement du ngoma en Afrique du Sud en termes de conscience: comme une realisation de l'oppression et une volonte de lutter contre elle, comme un ensemble de mots qui represente une approche particuliere de la perception, de l'interpretation et de l'action a l'egard du malheur. Enfin, il l'aborde sous l'angle des reci…
Le roi de Kongo et les monsters sacres
Historical consciousness and a 'prise de conscience' in genocidal Rwanda
This paper utilizes Professor Terence Ranger's approach to the study of consciousness to explore an instance of resistance to genocide in Rwanda in 1994, in which a communal mayor and his staff experienced a 'prise de conscience,' an awakening about the genocidal conspiracy that was occurring, and acted decisively to neutralize the forces that elsewhere led to the decimation of most 'Tutsi' and opponents of the ruling regime. Professor Ranger's l…
Doing Ngoma
A widespread ritual institution in Central and Southern Africa is often referred to, or carries the name, of ngoma, at once the term for drum, as well as drumming or other musical instrumentation, singing, dancing, and the complex of constituent behavior and concepts. Particular manifestations of the institution often carry names denoting a regional or local variant that emerged at a certain time and spread into neighboring regions. Across the re…
Mind/body, subject/object
Anderson, Robert. Magic, Science, and Health: The Aims and Achievements of Medical Anthropology. Fort Worth, TX: Harcourt Brace, 1996. x + 454 pp. including index. $34.74 paper. Hahn, Robert A. Sickness and Healing: An Anthropological Perspective. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1995. viii + 327 pp. including references and index. $30.00 cloth. Kleinman, Arthur. Writing at the Margin: Discourse between Anthropology and Medicine. Berkeley: U…
Les Phemba du Mayombe
Nkisi Figures of the Bakongo
Kongo Religious Renewal
This feature of the mise en veilleuse ou l'oblit6ration partielle of tradition can be found in a particularly spectacular visible form in the sudden iconoclastic movements evident in Kongo history at which point most of the ritual relics are discarded, burned, or deactivated. With every decade of Kongo research, and with every decade of unfolding Kongo culture history, more episodes of this sort come to light. A rapid survey of 450 years of Kongo…
Ayiwewe
(1999). “Ayiwewe”: War-Traumatized Children Draw Their Memories. Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue canadienne des études africaines: Vol. 33, French-Speaking Central Africa: Political Dynamics of Identities and Representations / Afrique centrale francophone : dynamiques politiques des identités et des représentations, pp. 593-609
Weaving the Threads of Life
Catastrophe and Creation
Old age security and the family life course
The comparative study of medical systems as changing social systems
De l'Atlantique au fleuve Congo
The Drums of Affliction
The Politics of Apoliticality
Janzen John M. The Politics of Apoliticality : Form and Process in a Lower Congo Régional Council. In: Cahiers d'études africaines, vol. 9, n°36, 1969. pp. 570-599
Ne-Kongo en Afrique Centrale
Concepts of God in Africa
Kongo Religious Renewal
This feature of the mise en veilleuse ou l'oblit6ration partielle of tradition can be found in a particularly spectacular visible form in the sudden iconoclastic movements evident in Kongo history at which point most of the ritual relics are discarded, burned, or deactivated. With every decade of Kongo research, and with every decade of unfolding Kongo culture history, more episodes of this sort come to light. A rapid survey of 450 years of Kongo…
Books Reviews
Book reviewed in this article: Development and Change: Africana Collecta: Beiträge zum Studium von Politik, Gesellschaft und Wirtschaft afrikanischer Länder. (Studies on Politics, Social Institutions, and Economics of African Countries .) DIETER OBERNDÖRFER, ed Development and Change: Einheimische Genossenschaften in Afrika: Formen wirtschaftlicher Zusammenarbeit bei westafrikanischen Stämmen. (Indigenous Cooperatives in Africa: Types of Economic…
Laman's Kongo Ethnography
Opening ParagraphValuable African archival materials are known to have been 'rediscovered' accidentally after having been 'lost' to scholarship for a time. Perhaps the foremost example of this in Lower Congo research is the eighteenth-century bibliography located by Jadin in the Vatican Library some time ago. A similar case which I shall discuss here is that of the KiKongo sources of Karl Laman's four volume ethnography The Kongo, a 775-page work…
Nkisi Figures of the Bakongo
Pende Masks in Kauffman Museum
auffman Museum in North Newton
An Anthology of Kongo Religion
The Quest for Therapy in Lower Zaire
In this book, Dr. John M. Janzen describes patterns of healing among the BaKongo of Lower Zaire in Africa, who, like many peoples elsewhere, utilize cosmopolitan medicine alongside traditional healing practices. What criteria, he asks, determine the choice of the alternative therapies? And what is their institutional interrelationship? In seeking answers, he analyzes case histories and cultural contexts to explore what social transactions, decisi…
The comparative study of medical systems as changing social systems
Les Phemba du Mayombe
The Quest for Therapy in Lower Zaire
Ideologies and institutions in the precolonial history of equatorial African therapeutic systems
Lemba, 1650-1930
I. Introduction
The need for a taxonomy of health in the study of African therapeutics
Boiling Energy
The Quest for Therapy
Lemba, 1650-1930
Art of the Yaka and Suku
The Politics of Divination
Old age security and the family life course
Sociology (29 works) · History (25 works) · Political science (21 works) · Anthropology (15 works) · African cultural and philosophical studies (14 works) · History (14 works) · Medicine (12 works) · Philosophy (12 works) · Art (11 works) · Computer Science (11 works)