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Healing: cultural fundamentalism and syncreticism in Buganda

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 December 2011

Christine Obbo
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Résumé

Cet article se base sur une enquête de six mois sur les guérisseurs et les sources de la médecine populaire à Kampala et dans ses alentours en Ouganda durant 1992. Quatre études de cas sur les guérisseurs et leurs vies montrent le choix de guérisons qui est à la disposition des gens malades ou angoissés. L'accent est mis sur le retour ‘aux choses de chez nous’, retour aux techniques et croyances de la culture traditionelle Bougandaise, face à la pauvreté des gens ordinaires et la pénurie, et le coût et l'échec de la bio-médecine. Mais ce ‘fondamentalisme culturel’ est combiné avec un syncrétisme pratique puisque les guérisseurs demeurent Mulsumans ou Chrétiens et recommandent un traitement hospitalier chaque fois que celui-ci semble être plus approprié.

Type
Curing the body, healing the self
Information
Africa , Volume 66 , Issue 2 , April 1996 , pp. 183 - 201
Copyright
Copyright © International African Institute 1996

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