White Sangomas: the manifestation of Bantu forms of shamanic calling among whites in South Africa
South Africa is one of some few countries where sizeable communities of black and white people live together which have preserved their distinct cultures. Other than in the Americas, South Africa has a black majority with the Bantu African languages and cultural institutions largely preserved - and...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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[2018]
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Rever
Year: 2018, Volume: 18, Issue: 1, Pages: 143-173 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Africa
/ Bantu
/ Shamanism
/ Medium
/ Whites
/ Morphogenetic field
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| RelBib Classification: | AZ New religious movements BB Indigenous religions KBN Sub-Saharan Africa |
| Further subjects: | B
Bantu shamanism and mediumism. Sangomas. Intercultural transmission. R. Shel-drake's theory of morphogenetic fields. Syncretism studies
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| Summary: | South Africa is one of some few countries where sizeable communities of black and white people live together which have preserved their distinct cultures. Other than in the Americas, South Africa has a black majority with the Bantu African languages and cultural institutions largely preserved - and it has the most marked history of segregation. Thus few elements of Bantu cultures have been adopted by white South Africans. Yet in recent years a core element of Bantu culture, the shamanism and mediumism of the Sangomas, has begun to manifest itself among whites in South Africa - in the characteristic forms of such calling. Interestingly this has not happened by cultural learning in significant cases. This requires a different model of explanation. In this essay Rupert Sheldrake's theory of morphogenetic fields will be applied to this phenomenon and its implications considered. |
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| ISSN: | 1677-1222 |
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.23925/1677-1222.2018vol18i1a8 |