Traditional Medicine, Biomedicine and Christianity in Modern Zambia
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2620190 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Kaori Sugishita (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2009 |
| Volume | 79 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 435-454 |
| Publication date | 2009-08-01 |
| 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 | 10.3366/e0001972009000904 |
| OpenAlex | W2153694482 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 25 |
The World Health Organization has recognized 'traditional medicine' as ade factoand economical substitute for biomedicine in the developing world. Accordingly, the Zambian government aims to integrate 'traditional healers', locally known asng'anga, with their biomedical counterparts in a national health care system. Hence, on the one hand,ng'angaelaborate their practice into 'herbalism', which could meet scientific standards and fit into the scope of biomedicine. On the other hand, they continue to deal with affliction by positing the existence of occult agents, such as witchcraft and spirits, at the risk of being criticized for exploiting indigenous beliefs. As a result, manyng'angaassociate themselves with Christianity, the national religion of Zambia, which serves as an official domain of the occult where they take refuge from biomedical rationalization. However, conventional churches, the government and health authorities do not approve of the link between Christianity and traditional medicine; henceng'angaas traditional healers are marginalized in modern, Christian Zambia. Being thus dissociated from the national religion,ng'angaare officially confined to the periphery of national health care, where they submit to the primacy of biomedicine and the workings of state power
Biomedicine · Christianity · Economic growth · Economics · Ethnology · Government (linguistics · Health care · Indigenous · Political science · Rationalization (economics · Scope (computer science · Sociology · Traditional medicine · African cultural and philosophical studies · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Ethnobotanical and Medicinal Plants Studies · Law · Medicine · Philosophy · Religious studies
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The Role of Religion, Philosophy of Life, Global Health, Traditional Medicine, and Past Experiences in the Covid-19 Pandemic Response
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Relational Harm
Bantu Prophets in South Africa
Social anthropology and medicine
The modernity of witchcraft
Modernity and its malcontents
Witchcraft Confessions and Accusations
NgomaDiscourses of Healing in Central and Southern Africa
Some Spirits Heal, Others Only Dance
African Christianity
Zionism and Faith-Healing in Rhodesia
Magical Interpretations, Material Realities
Ethnography and the Meta‐Narratives of Modernity
Mutumwa nchimi healers and wizardry beliefs in Zambia
African Medicine in the Modern World
The Drums of Affliction
The Transmission of Knowledge in South African Traditional Healing
The Quest for Fruition through Ngoma
Ethical and Political Aspects of African Witchcraft
Witchcraft and British Colonial Law
Cosmologies in turmoil
On the creation and dissolution of ethnomedical systems in the medical ethnography of Africa
Social History and Millennial Movements
Religious Movements in Central Africa
| Unique citing works | 6 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,5 |
| Citation span | 2014 - 2024 (11) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 6 |