Healing the Exposed Being: The Ngoma healing tradition in South Africa

By (author): Robert Thornton. Explores the Ngoma healing tradition as practised in eastern Mpumalanga, South Africa. "Bungoma" is an active philosophical system and healing practice consisting of multiple strands that is based on the notion that humans are intrinsically exposed to each other; while this is the cause of illness, it is also the condition for the possibility of healing.