Healing
Cultural fundamentalism and syncreticism in Buganda
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2512232 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Christine Obbo (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1996 |
| Volume | 66 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 183-201 |
| Publication date | 1996-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Africa (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0001-9720 • E-ISSN: 1750-0184 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/1161316 |
| OpenAlex | W2093783699 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 13 |
| References cited | 8 |
The article is based on a six-month survey of healers and sources of everyday medicine in and around Kampala, Uganda, during 1992. Four case studies of healers and their lives demonstrate the range of healing practice available to the sick or anxious. The emphasis is on the return to 'our things', to the techniques and beliefs of traditional Bugandan culture, in the face of ordinary people's poverty and the scarcity, cost or failure of biomedicine. But this 'cultural fundamentalism' is combined with practical syncretism, as the healers remain Muslims or Christians and readily recommend hospital treatment whenever it seems more appropriate
Aesthetics · Biomedicine · Ethnology · Everyday life · Fundamentalism · Political science · Politics · Poverty · Scarcity · Sociology · Syncretism (linguistics · Traditional medicine · African cultural and philosophical studies · African Studies and Ethnography · Anthropological Studies and Insights · History · Law · Medicine · Philosophy
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| Unique citing works | 13 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,43 |
| Citation span | 1996 - 2024 (29) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 13 |