The medicine man among the Zaramo of Dar es Salaam

Abstract

As an urban anthropologist, pastor and teacher the author has lived for many years among the Zaramo. This revised doctoral thesis is an important and well documented study of the traditional healers in the urban setting.

<p>Contents: 1. Traditional medicine man and muslim clerics as healers -- 2. Other types of medicine men and women -- 3. Diagnosis of illness the diviner -- 4. The urban Zaramo and their concept of illness and misfortune -- 5. The changing role of the medicine man in urban Zaramo </p>