- AutorIn
- Kaingu Kalume Tinga
- Titel
- Cultural practice of the Midzichenda at cross roads:
- Untertitel
- Divination, healing, witchcraft and the statutory law
- Zitierfähige Url:
- https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bsz:15-qucosa-97822
- Quellenangabe
- Swahili-Forum - 5.1998
- Quellenangabe
- Swahili Forum; 5(1998), S. 173-184
- Abstract (EN)
- This paper discusses the conflicts between some cultural practices of the Midzichenda (i. e. divination, healing and witchcraft) and the Kenyan Law. For decades, diviners and healers have been misconceived and condemned wholesale as `witchdoctors´, `wizards´ or `witches´. This misconception has seen many innocent diviners and healers mercilessly arrested, hurriedly arraigned in court, heavily fined and (or) eventually imprisoned, and their paraphernalia confiscated and finally destroyed by the state. The paper calls for proper understanding of the intricate belief in and practise of divination and healing vis-a-vis witchcraft and proposes ways which could help solve the conflicts.
- Freie Schlagwörter (DE)
- Swahili, Kenia, Hexerei, Heiler, Staat , Gesetz
- Freie Schlagwörter (EN)
- Swahili, witchcraft, healer, Kenya, state, law
- Klassifikation (DDC)
- 496
- Normschlagwörter (GND)
- Swahili, Kenia, Hexerei, Heiler, Staatspraxis
- Herausgeber (Institution)
- Universität zu Köln
- URN Qucosa
- urn:nbn:de:bsz:15-qucosa-97822
- Veröffentlichungsdatum Qucosa
- 30.11.2012
- Dokumenttyp
- Artikel
- Sprache des Dokumentes
- Englisch