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Ukuthwasa is a Southern African culture-bound syndrome [1] [2] associated with the calling and the initiation process to become a sangoma, a type of traditional healer. In the cultural context of traditional healers in Southern Africa, the journey of ukuthwasa (or intwaso) involves a spiritual process marked by rituals, teachings, and preparations.
Five sangomas in KwaZulu-Natal. Traditional healers of Southern Africa are practitioners of traditional African medicine in Southern Africa.They fulfil different social and political roles in the community like divination, healing physical, emotional, and spiritual illnesses, directing birth or death rituals, finding lost cattle, protecting warriors, counteracting witchcraft and narrating the ...
Amafufunyana is an unspecified "culture-bound" syndrome named by the traditional healers of the Xhosa people that relates to claims of demonic possession due to members of the Xhosa people exhibiting aberrant behavior and psychological concerns. [1]
Thomas Gale defined the word indigenous as to anything that is native to a particular geographical culture. Mbiti says in Zimbabwe Indigenous religion is in two classes, the Ndebele [2] [3] and Shona. [1] [4] [5] [6] However, Zimbabwe has a lot of minority tribes including the Tonga, Venda, Kalanga and Sothu.
Umhlanga was created in the 1940s Eswatini under the rule of Sobhuza II, and is an adaptation of the much older Umchwasho ceremony. [1] The reed dance continues to be practised today in Eswatini.
Africa [3 volumes]: An Encyclopedia of Culture and Society: Bloomsbury Academic. [15] This is an encyclopedia book that was published by an independent publisher. It should be reliable. It covers the topic of Burundian culture and music and dance, it can be used to establish notability. Mbonyingingo, Audace; Ntiranyibagira, Constantin (2020).
The art of embroidery in Palestine, practices, skills, knowledge and rituals 2021 [491] Dabkeh, traditional dance in Palestine 2023 [492] Tradition of Nabulsi soap making in Palestine 2024 [493] Panama Artisanal processes and plant fibers techniques for talcos, crinejas and pintas weaving of the pinta'o hat 2017 LAC [494]
There are traditional ceremonies and rituals held every year before the first rains to thank the ancestors for the good yields of the past year. During these rituals, traditional beer is brewed and a beast is killed, cooked, and taken to the hills where the Badimo are hidden, the place is called Badimong or Difokeng.