102. Traditional Yoruba Healers in Nigeria

Margetts, Edward L.

doi:10.2307/2797449

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“…T This summary is drawn from the following sources: Social Organization -Bascom (1944, 1969b, Forde (1951), Lloyd (1954Lloyd ( , 1960Lloyd ( , 1968, and Morton-Williams (1952, 1960a, 1964, 1967, 1968, 1969); Body and Disease Concepts -Bascom (1960, 1969a), Leighton et al (1963), Margetts (1965), Morton-Williams (1960b and Prince (I960, 1961aPrince (I960, , 1961bPrince (I960, , 1964. These sources should be consulted for more detailed information.…”

Section: Ga Culturementioning

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Power, authority and disease: a structural analysis

Borofsky

1975

Bijdr taal land volkenkd

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The first explorers and missionaries often looked askance at native conceptions of disease. They seemed illogical, irrational superstitions. Gradually, as the field of anthropology began to develop, attempts were made to better understand these native conceptions. For example, Frazer (1922) formulated cross-cultural laws of magical causation. Clements (1932) sought to explain the diffusion of certain postulated types of causation through conjectural history. To us today, such laws and conjectures seem too facile and simplistic to portray much about conceptions of disease. Instead anthropologists now see that these conceptions are often statements about specific social relations in a culture. Lewis (1971), for instance, notes a relationship between social standing and two types of disease causation, spirit possession and witchcraft. Whiting and Child (1953) find a statistical correlation between certain explanations of illness and certain types of harsh child rearing practices. Turner (1967, 1968, 1969) shows that particular symbols in Ndembu curing ceremonies possess a whole variety of social referents.

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Section: Ga Culturementioning

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Power, authority and disease: a structural analysis

Borofsky

1975

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“…e.g. A Yoruba 'psychiatrist'-a unique photograph taken at Akure, Nigeria, in 1964, has been published (83). The man posing in the picture is a Yoruba medicine man who specializes in treating mental patients.…”

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confidence: 99%