| Description |
1 online resource (xviii, 201 pages) : illustrations, map, music |
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Book collections on Project MUSE
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| Contents |
Introduction: Situating Kusamira and Nswezi as Repertories of Well-Being -- Repertories of Well-Being -- Geographic and Fieldwork Context -- Pathways to the Healer's Shrine -- The Music: Instrumentation, Idioms, and Heterophony -- Broader Impacts of Kusamira for Ethnographic Theory -- From Divination to Diagnosis to Intervention -- The Path Ahead |
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1. Ritual Work in Twenty-First-Century Uganda: From Folk Well-Being to Ex-Colonial Professionalization -- From (In)Visibility to Audibility: Traditional Healers in the Ugandan Ex-Colony -- Struggles for Control and Productive Simultaneities in the Ugandan Ex-Colony -- The Social Basis of Ugandan Health, Past and Present -- "Living Positively": Indigenous Music and Medicine in the Time of AIDS -- New Struggles for Control in Uganda -- Ritual Musicking as Ritual Work -- Conclusion -- 2. Ecologies of Well-Being: Hearing the World through Ritual Repertories -- Invoking the Twins |
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Ssewasswa: Performing Idioms of Risk and Abundance -- Community and Ecology across Two Regions -- Mayembe: Binding Spiritual Work and Ecology into Concentrated Space -- Hunting, Gathering, and Joining: Ddungu the Hunter -- Pantheons and Litanies, Fauna and Flora: Repertories of Practice -- From Animals Back to Plants Again -- Rivers and Other Waters, Trees and Other Plants -- Conclusion -- 3. Possessing Sound Medicine: Gathering Resources, Strengthening Networks, Composing Knowledge -- Sanctuaries of Tradition -- Spirit Mediums: Flexible Persons, Conduits to Networks, and Bearers of Knowledge |
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Okwaza: Searching for Spirits -- Mayembe: The Musical Socialization of Spiritual Power -- Gimme Shelter: Meeting Spirits' Demands for Places to Call Their Own -- The Ritual Seriousness of Play -- Ritual Innovation: High-Tech(ne) Hymnody -- Conclusion -- 4. Sacrifice and Song: Ritual Exchange and the Production of Relational Ideals -- The Cultural Logic of Sacrifice: Singing and Praying, Blessing and Feeding -- Hunting Productive Power: Sacrifice, Sexuality, and the Contours of Liminality -- Omukolo gw'Emisambwa: The Rite of the Misambwa -- Omukolo gwa Kiwanuka: The Rite of Kiwanuka |
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Rituals of New Life, Open Doors, and Fertility -- Omukolo gwa Sserugulamilyango: The Ritual of the One Who Opens Doorways -- Omukolo gw'Abakyala: Rite of the Women -- Interlude: Kalalu (Little Wild One) -- Omukolo gw'Amayembe: The Rite of the Mayembe (Working Spirits) -- A Contrasting Example of Sacrifice: Irondo -- Conclusion -- 5. From Tea and Coffee Berries to Beer and Meat: Sound, Hospitality, and Feasting in Repertories of Well-Being -- Coffee Berries, Groundnuts, and Banana Beer -- Cleansing and Gratitude -- Dancing with the Spirits: Well-Being beyond Therapeutics -- Conclusion: Listening to Kusamira's Lessons on Well-Being Now |
| Summary |
"In southern Uganda, ritual healing traditions called kusamira and nswezi rely on music to treat sickness and maintain well-being. Peter J. Hoesing blends ethnomusicological fieldwork with analysis to examine how kusamira and nswezi performance socializes dynamic processes of illness, wellness, and health. People participate in these traditions for reasons that range from preserving ideas to generating strategies that allow them to navigate changing circumstances. Indeed, the performance of kusamira and nswezi reproduces ideas that remain relevant for succeeding generations. Hoesing shows the potential of this social reproduction of well-being to shape development in a region where over 80 percent of the population relies on traditional healers for primary health care."-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record and online resource (JSTOR, viewed February 18, 2022) |
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Music therapy -- Uganda
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Music, Influence of -- Uganda
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Spiritual healing -- Uganda
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Channeling (Spiritualism) -- Uganda
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Traditional medicine -- Uganda
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MUSIC / General
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Traditional medicine
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Channeling (Spiritualism)
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Music, Influence of
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Music therapy
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Spiritual healing
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| SUBJECT |
Uganda |
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Uganda
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2021940090 |
| ISBN |
9780252052729 |
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0252052722 |
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