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Between literal lesions and literary tropes - a proposal for examining the discourse of healing in some African indigenous churches.

dc.contributor.advisorNicolson, Ronald Brian.
dc.contributor.authorAllan, Austin James.
dc.date.accessioned2020-04-21T10:05:18Z
dc.date.available2020-04-21T10:05:18Z
dc.date.created1995
dc.date.issued1995
dc.descriptionMasters Degree. University of KwaZulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg.en_US
dc.description.abstractApproaches to indigenous healing in South Africa need to be situated in the broader health care system within which that healing occurs. To facilitate a viable recognition of that indigenous healing, this paper argues that categories need to be defined which allow for the cross-cultural comparison of different forms of healing. One of these categories concerns the analytical approach which is used for explaining what happens during indigenous healing. By developing a proposal for analysing the discourse of healing in some African Indigenous Churches (AICs), what this paper purports to do is to lend recognition to the viable and important role which indigenous practitioners have in contributing to the general system of health care. This proposed model is applied to specific examples of indigenous healing drawn from the AIC healers included in the fieldwork. The conclusion reached is that healing in these churches operates within a particular discourse. As cultural constructions these discourses create important sociosomatic links between the general meaning system in which a person lives and her physiological functioning. It is in the process of rhetorical movement, observable in healing transactions and which occurs across these discourses, that the powerful endogenous healing processes are activated, and a change in the patient's condition is affected. This change is affected along the sociosomatic linkage.en_US
dc.description.notesQuality of scanned pdf has been compromised owing to poor condition of original document.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://researchspace.ukzn.ac.za/handle/10413/18170
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.subject.otherIndigenous healing.en_US
dc.subject.otherAfrican indigenous churches.en_US
dc.subject.otherHealthcare.en_US
dc.subject.otherPatient-healer transactions.en_US
dc.titleBetween literal lesions and literary tropes - a proposal for examining the discourse of healing in some African indigenous churches.en_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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