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In the Voices of the Ancestors: Izangoma Trance Processes and Embodied Narratives Towards Decolonization Praxis

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dc.contributor.advisorMacDonald, Margaret
dc.contributor.advisorDeSouza, Joseph
dc.contributor.advisorIdahosa, Pablo
dc.creatorRogerson, Rebecca
dc.date.accessioned2018-05-28T12:56:34Z
dc.date.available2018-05-28T12:56:34Z
dc.date.copyright2017-12-13
dc.date.issued2018-05-28
dc.date.updated2018-05-28T12:56:33Z
dc.degree.disciplineInterdisciplinary Studies
dc.degree.levelMaster's
dc.degree.nameMA - Master of Arts
dc.description.abstractIzangoma, or diviners, are one type of traditional healer in Southern Africa. Despite colonial efforts to delegitimize and criminalize traditional healing and medicine, there are 300,000-350,000 traditional healers in South Africa alone (Decocteau, 223.) Central to the Nguni Izangoma worldview is ancestral veneration. Ancestors are not only respected, mediated and honoured through ceremonial practices, but also through trance processes. Having the ancestors refers not only to those called to heal but also to the embodiment of ancestors through co-performative and nuanced socio-cultural processes. Using autoethnographic and narrative writing practices, this interdisciplinary thesis explores the dynamic embodiment of ancestors, and how Izangoma trance processes, which includes affective writing practices, informs a revaluing, acknowledging, meditating and resituating of suppressed narratives (Taylor, xvi.) These methods of inquiry and research practices are therefore not just crucial to reconciliatory endeavours but are also synecdochic of the process of decolonization and healing.
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10315/34549
dc.language.isoen
dc.rightsAuthor owns copyright, except where explicitly noted. Please contact the author directly with licensing requests.
dc.subjectWomen's studies
dc.subject.keywordsAutoethnography
dc.subject.keywordsAnthropology
dc.subject.keywordsSociology
dc.subject.keywordsDecolonization
dc.subject.keywordsAncestors
dc.subject.keywordsWomen studies
dc.subject.keywordsNarrative
dc.subject.keywordsSouth African
dc.subject.keywordsIndigenous knowledge
dc.subject.keywordsIndigenous spirituality
dc.subject.keywordsHealing
dc.subject.keywordsTrance
dc.subject.keywordsAffect theory
dc.subject.keywordsEmbodiment
dc.subject.keywordsNeuroscience
dc.subject.keywordsWitchcraft
dc.subject.keywordsZulu
dc.subject.keywordsOppression
dc.subject.keywordsFeminism
dc.subject.keywordsRituals
dc.subject.keywordsSexual abuse
dc.subject.keywordsGhosts
dc.subject.keywordsSpirits
dc.subject.keywordsHybridity
dc.subject.keywordsShamanism
dc.subject.keywordsJung
dc.subject.keywordsUnconscious
dc.subject.keywordsPossession
dc.subject.keywordsPsychology
dc.subject.keywordsCultural phenomenon
dc.subject.keywordsEmotions
dc.subject.keywordsDance
dc.subject.keywordsMovement
dc.subject.keywordsSangoma
dc.subject.keywordsNguni
dc.subject.keywordsOut of Body Experiences
dc.subject.keywordsMind-Body dualism
dc.subject.keywordsSocial practice
dc.subject.keywordsCounselling
dc.subject.keywordsTrauma
dc.subject.keywordsHealing methodologies
dc.subject.keywordsColonization
dc.subject.keywordsCultural practices
dc.subject.keywordsApartheid
dc.subject.keywordsReconcilitation
dc.subject.keywordsLand
dc.subject.keywordsEpistemologies
dc.subject.keywordsUbuntu resistance
dc.subject.keywordsSolidarity
dc.subject.keywordsCollaboration
dc.subject.keywordsInterdisciplinary
dc.subject.keywordsPerformance
dc.titleIn the Voices of the Ancestors: Izangoma Trance Processes and Embodied Narratives Towards Decolonization Praxis
dc.typeElectronic Thesis or Dissertation

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