Becoming a Xhosa Healer: Nomzi's Story.
This paper presents the story of an isiXhosa traditional healer (igqirha), Nomzi Hlathi (pseudonym), as told to the first author. Nomzi was asked about how she came to be an igqirha and the narrative focuses on those aspects of her life story that she understood as relevant to that developmental pro...
| Publicado en: | Indo-Pacific Journal of Phenomenology Vol. 14; no. 2; pp. 1 - 13 |
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