Peter J. Hoesing
Kusamira Music in Uganda: Spirit Mediumship and Ritual Healing
Kusamira Music in Uganda: Spirit Mediumship and Ritual Healing
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Kusamira Music in Uganda explores the relationship between music, healing, and well-being in southern Uganda, highlighting the potential of this social reproduction of well-being to shape development in a region where over 80 percent of the population relies on traditional healers for primary health care.
Format: Hardback
Length: 208 pages
Publication date: 26 October 2021
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
A performance culture of illness and wellness exists in southern Uganda, where ritual healing traditions known as kusamira and nswezi utilize music to treat sickness and promote well-being. Peter J. Hoesing combines ethnomusicological fieldwork with analysis to explore how kusamira and nswezi performances socially construct dynamic processes of illness, wellness, and health. Individuals engage in these traditions for various reasons, including preserving ideas and developing strategies to navigate changing circumstances. Hoesing demonstrates the potential of this social reproduction of well-being to influence development in a region where over 80 percent of the population relies on traditional healers for primary health care. "Kusamira Music in Uganda" provides a comprehensive and captivating account of these healing traditions, highlighting the intersections between expressive culture and healing practices, the human and non-human, and Uganda's past and future.
Dimension: 229 x 152 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780252043826
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