Psycho-diagnostics in a Xhosa Zionist church
- Authors: Thorpe, Mark Richard
- Date: 1982
- Subjects: Psychodiagnostics -- South Africa , Xhosa (African people) -- Religion , Xhosa (African people) -- Psychology , Zionist churches (Africa) -- South Africa , Healers -- South Africa , Healing -- South Africa -- Religious aspects
- Language: English
- Type: Thesis , Masters , MA
- Identifier: vital:3072 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1002581 , Psychodiagnostics -- South Africa , Xhosa (African people) -- Religion , Xhosa (African people) -- Psychology , Zionist churches (Africa) -- South Africa , Healers -- South Africa , Healing -- South Africa -- Religious aspects
- Description: A large number of Black patients seen by the mental health team in South Africa consult indigenous healers. An awareness of the diagnosis and treatment given to patients by traditional healers, would therefore enhance both the rapport with and treatment of those patients who seek help from the mental health professionals and para-professionals.
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- Date Issued: 1982
- Authors: Thorpe, Mark Richard
- Date: 1982
- Subjects: Psychodiagnostics -- South Africa , Xhosa (African people) -- Religion , Xhosa (African people) -- Psychology , Zionist churches (Africa) -- South Africa , Healers -- South Africa , Healing -- South Africa -- Religious aspects
- Language: English
- Type: Thesis , Masters , MA
- Identifier: vital:3072 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1002581 , Psychodiagnostics -- South Africa , Xhosa (African people) -- Religion , Xhosa (African people) -- Psychology , Zionist churches (Africa) -- South Africa , Healers -- South Africa , Healing -- South Africa -- Religious aspects
- Description: A large number of Black patients seen by the mental health team in South Africa consult indigenous healers. An awareness of the diagnosis and treatment given to patients by traditional healers, would therefore enhance both the rapport with and treatment of those patients who seek help from the mental health professionals and para-professionals.
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- Date Issued: 1982
The religious system of the Ndlambe of East London district
- Authors: Bigalke, Erich Heinrich
- Date: 1970
- Subjects: Xhosa (African people) -- Religion
- Language: English
- Type: Thesis , Masters , MA
- Identifier: vital:2113 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1007648
- Description: From conclusion: This study has had a twofold objective, to present ethnographic data on a people who belong to the Xhosa tribal cluster and more specifically, to throw light on aspects of the ancestor cult among the Xhosa. In particular an attempt has been made to explore the nature of the interrelation between the social structure and the ancestor cult. Attention has been focussed on the lineage as an institution, on the rituals devoted to the ancestors and on the means of explaining misfortune. Though the Ndlambe, in common with other groups of indigenous people in the Eastern Cape, have been experiencing developments brought about by social change during the better part of two centuries, the recent implementation of the Betterment Scheme has resulted in drastic demographic changes. The former settlement pattern of scattered homesteads has given way before village formation. Beyond the fact that it has resulted in the closer proximity of homesteads, with the opportunities for cooperation and conflict that this situation implies, nothing is known of the direct organizational influence of this development. More…
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- Date Issued: 1970
- Authors: Bigalke, Erich Heinrich
- Date: 1970
- Subjects: Xhosa (African people) -- Religion
- Language: English
- Type: Thesis , Masters , MA
- Identifier: vital:2113 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1007648
- Description: From conclusion: This study has had a twofold objective, to present ethnographic data on a people who belong to the Xhosa tribal cluster and more specifically, to throw light on aspects of the ancestor cult among the Xhosa. In particular an attempt has been made to explore the nature of the interrelation between the social structure and the ancestor cult. Attention has been focussed on the lineage as an institution, on the rituals devoted to the ancestors and on the means of explaining misfortune. Though the Ndlambe, in common with other groups of indigenous people in the Eastern Cape, have been experiencing developments brought about by social change during the better part of two centuries, the recent implementation of the Betterment Scheme has resulted in drastic demographic changes. The former settlement pattern of scattered homesteads has given way before village formation. Beyond the fact that it has resulted in the closer proximity of homesteads, with the opportunities for cooperation and conflict that this situation implies, nothing is known of the direct organizational influence of this development. More…
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- Date Issued: 1970
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