Dancing Prophets : Musical Experience in Tumbuka Healing by Friedson, Steven M.

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Dancing Prophets : Musical Experience in Tumbuka Healing by Friedson, Steven M.ISBN: 9780226265025 The University of Chicago Press, 12 Sep 1996 Paperback, 260 pages Description For the Tumbuka people of Malawi, traditional medical practices are filled with music. This ethnography explores a health care system populated by dancing prophets, singing patients and drummed spirits. Tumbuka healers diagnose diseases by enacting divination trances in which they "see" the causes of past events and their consequences for patients. Music

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