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Les Rites de Possession Mahamba Lies a La Fecondite Chez Les Luv Ale Dezambie

Boris Wastiau

Leiden

Brill

Art and Healing: The Rituals of Possession Mahamba Related to Fertility Among the Luvale of Zambia This paper deals with a number of symbolic practices and art forms that have developed within rituals of possession known as mahamba in the upper Zambezi and Kasai area. I refer mostly to the Luvale of Zambia, among whom there are numerous mahamba, variously related to serious illness, sterility, madness, failure, social alienation or other ills. Presenting alternatively aspects of ad hoc therapeutic rituals, and "social drama, to borrow V. Turner's expression", or of religious cults, they are performed by both men and women. Mahamba can lead to initiation into a professional cast or simply serve to restore a possessed patient's physical health or social status. As rituals that are both 'religious' and 'therapeutic', they must be considered within the broad context of cosmology and medical knowledge. Here I will discuss the transforming role of certain artefacts and performances in mahamba rituals that aim at restoring female fertility. Art and Healing: The Rituals of Possession Mahamba Related to Fertility Among the Luvale of Zambia This paper deals with a number of symbolic practices and art forms that have developed within rituals of possession known as mahamba in the upper Zambezi and Kasai area. I refer mostly to the Luvale of Zambia, among whom there are numerous mahamba, variously related to serious illness, sterility, madness, failure, social alienation or other ills. Presenting alternatively aspects of ad hoc therapeutic rituals, and "social drama, to borrow V. Turner's expression", or of religious cults, they are performed by both men and women. Mahamba can lead to initiation into a professional cast or simply serve to restore a possessed patient's physical health or social status. As rituals that are both 'religious' and 'therapeutic', they must be considered within the broad context of cosmology and medical knowledge. Here I will discuss the transforming role of certain artefacts and performances in mahamba rituals that aim at restoring female fertility.

1998

99-115

Afrika Focus

14/1

2031-356X

cult figure

fertility ritual

possession cult

tehrapeutic arts

Zambia

Boris Wastiau

10.1163/2031356X-01401011

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