Nicky Arden

African Spirits Speak

A White Woman's Journey Into the Healing Tradition of the Sangoma

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Produktbeschreibung

Set against the stirring backdrop of the crumbling South African apartheid regime, African Spirits Speak is the lyrical account of a white South African woman's journey into the world of the sangomas, the indigenous diviners and priests of South Africa, and a mystical journey that changed her life.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Inner Traditions/Bear & Company
• Original edition
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Februar 1999
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 153mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 399g
• ISBN-13: 9780892817528
• ISBN-10: 0892817526
• Artikelnr.: 22226047

Autorenporträt

Nicky Arden is the former director of San Diego Youth and Community Services, a social service agency. She and her husband divide their time between San Diego, California, and Johannesburg, South Africa.

Inhaltsangabe

1 In the Beginning
2 The Time of Tears
3 Where the Only Sound is Silence
4 Morongo Valley, Meditation. and Mother Earth
5 The Weaving Thread
6 The Emerging Pattern
7 The Work Begins
8 The Second Night
9 Herbs and Politics
10 Spirit Riffles and Porcupine Quills
11 Alina
12 Herbs to Cure, Herbs to Hide, and Spirit Names
13 The Initiation
14 Learning to Divine
15 The Work Goes on and Western Worries
16 Return to the Bush
17 Killings and Drummings
18 Madota Thanks the Spirits
19 Spirit-Speak
20 Clients and Lessons
21 Farewell for Now
22 Back into the Motherhood
23 Return to Africa
24 Passages
25 Visiting Balfour
26 Prayers, Transmigrations, and Strange Happenings
27 Dreadlocked and Oiled
28 A Meeting about Children
29 Whisks, Warps, and Visions
30 A Country Reborn
33 Elections
34 Giving Thanks