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Title: | Nharo Bushman Medicine and Medicine Men |
Author: | Barnard, Alan |
Year: | 1979 |
Periodical: | Africa: Journal of the International African Institute |
Volume: | 49 |
Issue: | 1 |
Pages: | 68-80 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Botswana |
Subjects: | San healers psychotherapy Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups) |
External links: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/1159506 https://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&res_dat=xri:pao:&rft_dat=xri:pao:article:4011-1979-049-00-000006 |
Abstract: | The Nharo are a Khoe- (or 'Hottentot') speaking people who live in the western Ghanzi district of Botswana, in the central-western Kalahari. This article presents a descriptive and comparative overview of Nharo medicine, especially of the central Nharo. Sections: medicine and medicine men - physical medicine - spriritual medicine - the place of medicine men in the society and explanations of Bushman medicine. Notes, ref., résumé. |